The Celestial Artisans

44:7.1These artists are not con­cerned with mu­sic, paint­ing, or any­thing sim­i­lar, as you might be led to sur­mise. They are oc­cu­pied with the ma­nip­u­la­tion and or­ga­ni­za­tion of spe­cial­ized forces and en­er­gies which are pres­ent in the spirit world, but which are not rec­og­nized by mor­tals. If I had the least pos­si­ble ba­sis for com­par­i­son, I would at­tempt to por­tray this unique field of spirit achieve­ment, but I de­spair—there is no hope of con­vey­ing to mor­tal minds this sphere of ce­les­tial artistry. Nev­er­the­less, that which can­not be de­scribed may still be im­plied:

44:7.2Beauty, rhythm, and har­mony are in­tel­lec­tu­ally as­so­ci­ated and spir­i­tu­ally akin. Truth, fact, and re­la­tion­ship are in­tel­lec­tu­ally in­sep­a­ra­ble and as­so­ci­ated with the philo­sophic con­cepts of beauty. Good­ness, righ­teous­ness, and jus­tice are phil­o­soph­i­cally in­ter­re­lated and spir­i­tu­ally bound up to­gether with liv­ing truth and di­vine beauty.

44:7.3Cos­mic con­cepts of true phi­los­o­phy, the por­trayal of ce­les­tial artistry, or the mor­tal at­tempt to de­pict the hu­man rec­og­ni­tion of di­vine beauty can never be truly sat­is­fy­ing if such at­tempted crea­ture pro­gres­sion is un­uni­fied. These ex­pres­sions of the di­vine urge within the evolv­ing crea­ture may be in­tel­lec­tu­ally true, emo­tion­ally beau­ti­ful, and spir­i­tu­ally good; but the real soul of ex­pres­sion is ab­sent un­less these re­al­i­ties of truth, mean­ings of beauty, and val­ues of good­ness are uni­fied in the life ex­pe­ri­ence of the ar­ti­san, the sci­en­tist, or the philoso­pher.

44:7.4These di­vine qual­i­ties are per­fectly and ab­so­lutely uni­fied in God. And ev­ery God-know­ing man or an­gel pos­sesses the po­ten­tial of un­lim­ited self-ex­pres­sion on ever-pro­gres­sive lev­els of uni­fied self-re­al­iza­tion by the tech­nique of the never-end­ing achieve­ment of God­like­ness—the ex­pe­ri­en­tial blend­ing in the evo­lu­tion­ary ex­pe­ri­ence of eter­nal truth, uni­ver­sal beauty, and di­vine good­ness.