The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . ofbeauty of materials. All of the arts,and particularly music and architec-ture, portray in different manners anddegrees the truths of number. Archi-tecture does this in two ways: esoteri-cally, as it were, in the form of har-monic proportions; and exotericallyin the form of symbols which repre-sent numbers and groups of fact that a series of threes and aseries of fours mutually conjoin in I2, Shield of David. Seven,when represented as acompact group of circles,teveals itself as a numberof singular beauty andperf
The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . ofbeauty of materials. All of the arts,and particularly music and architec-ture, portray in different manners anddegrees the truths of number. Archi-tecture does this in two ways: esoteri-cally, as it were, in the form of har-monic proportions; and exotericallyin the form of symbols which repre-sent numbers and groups of fact that a series of threes and aseries of fours mutually conjoin in I2, Shield of David. Seven,when represented as acompact group of circles,teveals itself as a numberof singular beauty andperfection worthy of theimportant place accordedto it in all mystical phi-losophy. It is a curiousfact that when asked tothink of any number lessthan lo, most personswill choose 7 (Illustra-tion 73). Every form of art,though primarily a vehi-cle for the expressionand transmission of par-ticular ideas and emo-tions, has subsidiary of-fices, just as a musicaltone has harmonicswhich render it moresweet. Painting revealsin brass, and in stretchedlight, and the strength and. VI THE ARITHMETIC OF BEAUTY 8i una
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