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… Blinded By Beauty? | St. Austin Review. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Beauty may prepare the world to be saved; it may crack the walls of our prison. But to pass through that crack we need something more. To step out of the cave and into the light we need the will to do so, and that can only be engaged if Beauty is reconnected with Truth and Goodness. The arts and literature are preparatory, even essential, to the life of the spirit, but some more radical engagement with the world is necessary, and that is found in spirituality, in the interior life, in mysticism, in metaphysical intuition.