The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . THRjE/E ALTE-ENATION CPTHESE AND .^EVEN 4 9 2 - 15 3 5 7 = IS 8 I 6 = 15 15 15 IS Its beauty is portrayed geometrically in theaccompanying figure which expresses it,being 15 triangles in three groups of 5(Illustration 87). Few arrangements ofopenings in a fagade better satisfy the eyethan three superim-posed groups of five(Illustrations yy,81). May not one source of this satisfaction dwell in the intrinsicbeauty of the number 15? In conclusion, it is perhaps well that the readerbe again reminded that these are the by-ways, a
The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . THRjE/E ALTE-ENATION CPTHESE AND .^EVEN 4 9 2 - 15 3 5 7 = IS 8 I 6 = 15 15 15 IS Its beauty is portrayed geometrically in theaccompanying figure which expresses it,being 15 triangles in three groups of 5(Illustration 87). Few arrangements ofopenings in a fagade better satisfy the eyethan three superim-posed groups of five(Illustrations yy,81). May not one source of this satisfaction dwell in the intrinsicbeauty of the number 15? In conclusion, it is perhaps well that the readerbe again reminded that these are the by-ways, andnot the highways of architecture: that the highest. 84 THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY vi beauty comes always, not from beautiful numbers, nor from likenesses toNatures eternal patterns of the world, but from utility, fitness, economy,and the perfect adaptation of means to ends. But along with this truththere goes another: that in every excellent work of architecture, in additionto its obvious and individual beauty, there dwells an esoteric and universalbeauty, following as it does, the archetypal pattern laid down by the GreatArchitect for the building of that temple which is the world wherein we dwell. VIIFROZEN MUSIC IN the series of essays of which this is the final one, the author hasundertaken to enforce the truth that evolution on any plane and on anyscale proceeds according to certain laws which are in reality onlyramifications of one ubiquitous and ever operative law; that this lawregisters itself in the thing evolved, leaving stamped thereon, as it were,fossil footprints by means of which it may be known. In the arts thecreative spir
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