ART & ORGANISM
Aesthetic Arrest
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“We may dance toward it and away, achieve glimpses, and even dwell in its beauty for a time; yet few are those that have been confirmed in that knowledge of its ubiquity which antiquity called gnosis and the Orient calls bodhi: full awakening to the crystalline purity of the bed or ground of one’s own and yet the world’s true being. Like perfectly transparent crystal, it is there, yet as though not there; and all things, when seen through it, become luminous in its light”
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[i]. Joseph Campbell (1968) speaking of “aesthetic arrest,” in The Masks of God: Creative Mythology. Viking Press. p. 66