Beauty Spiritual Principle
| Number | 4 |
| Outer Focus | Stones |
| Inner Focus | Throat |
| Rainbow Color | Yellow – Expansion and Clarity |
| Evolving Color | Amber – Synthesis and Surrender |
Description
The spiritual principle of Beauty puts you directly in touch with a patterning system that wends its way through all natural forms. There’s something exquisitely precise about Nature, even when it appears to be asymmetrical and sometimes chaotic. If Beauty is in your garment pattern, you are constantly being pulled toward an understanding of the divine structure of things, and beyond the external facades.
In my color work, Beauty is in the Yellow Sphere of Clarity and Expansion. Yellow is the color that makes everything “more” of itself. Think of a tree. The leaves that the sun’s yellow-light rays hit shine with a much brighter green than the leaves in the shadow. Beauty’s influence in your life, if you’re lucky enough to have it as one of your garment threads, lets you see forms in their best light!
Additional Resources
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Although I’m not contracted with Beauty, my life in Arizona has brought me close to the earth and the mineral realm. The outer focus of the principle of Beauty is the Stone Beings – the denizens of the mineral kingdom that have their own internal structure, usually crystalline forms as in gemstones. Since ancient times, humans have fashioned jewelry from them – turquoise was the first – in order to have them close to their bodies. The stone beings remind us of different realms of creation. Turquoise, for example, reminds us of the most beautiful colors of sea and sky. Amber, which comes from the resin of trees, but then becomes hard as stone, creates a connection between plants and the realm of gemstones. Coral bridges the mineral and animal worlds. Some gems, such as opal, appear in many colors; others, like tanzanite, take on different colors when heated. They bring all the colors of the rainbow’s spectrum, even many shades, hues and full colors which are ‘between’ the rainbow colors as blends. Because gemstones have crystalline structures, they are describable mathematically, in abstract terms – mother earth speaks in numbers as the universal language. Yet in the realm of physical form, each stone is a unique individual. This merging of the universal and the particular reflects the way Beauty underlies and connects everything in the universe.
I always wondered why, of all the sciences, I liked astronomy the best. I chose it over geology as ‘best choice for a humanities major’ in college. I wished I could be an astronaut, and I still catch my breath at pictures from outer space. My favorite thing about getting out of the city is a potential opportunity to stargaze. I love archeoastronomy, the study of astronomical knowledge in ancient civilizations. I can contemplate in my mind’s eye the revolutions of the planets, the signs of the zodiac, and the aspects of the moon. I’m fascinated by earthly geography as well, especially it’s geometric and mathematical aspects like longitude, latitude, and time zones.
Then one day it hit me – of course, Beauty is my MidHeaven principle! The mathematics, the geometry, the sheer artistry of the heavens and the earth draws me like a magnet. It plays little part in my practical everyday life, it’s part of what points me toward our Divine source.
The metaphors of inner and outer focus often lead me on fascinating paths in understanding the Principles. This time I’m thinking, regarding outer focus: Beauty’s dynamic among the Principles is like the dynamic of the mineral kingdom in the universe. So, it turns out that a critical feature in evolution was symmetry, making possible what we call crystals (as in snowflakes and gems), which make up most of the stones’ world. Crystalline structures are the underlying patterns of proteins, too, so Beauty is a gateway to animate life as well as the stones.
Inner focus: Beauty’s dynamic is also similar to the throat’s dynamic in the body. “Throat” refers usually to the larynx and upper windpipe, not the whole neck, so it’s primarily about the function of making sounds – mostly an animal and human function. It seems to me that animal physiognomy, in birds and mammals and even many amphibians (like frogs), has the head distinct from the chest, and in between a throat. And that’s where sound vibrations come from! Biologists, correct me if I’m wrong here.
Beauty as symmetry and vibration serves as a gateway to new evolution in the Ascending Principles.