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The Beautiful Necessity Paperback – May 21, 2015

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The Beautiful Necessity-Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture is an art history classic by Claude Fayette Bragdon. One of the advantages of a thorough assimilation of what may be called the theosophic idea is that it can be applied with advantage to every department of knowledge and of human activity: like the key to a cryptogram it renders clear and simple that which before seemed intricate and obscure. Let us apply this key to the subject of art, and to the art of architecture in particular, and see if by so doing we may not learn more of art than we knew before, and more of theosophy too. Contents: The art of architecture -- Unity and polarity -- Changeless change -- The bodily temple -- Latent geometry -- The arithmetic of beauty -- Frozen music -- Conclusion.