The Beauty

Fra Angelico's The Stigmatization of Saint Francis

This painting shows the moment when Saint Francis of Assisi twice repeats in his ecstasy after receiving the stigmata of Christ on the mountain of La Verna: “You are beauty... You are beauty!” It has found only this word when he contemplated the One who is supremely beautiful. As though "beauty" there was last word that he has dared to say.
You understand certainly - the Beauty is not only an aesthetic concept but a metaphysical also. We state it already then we speak about a beautiful soul, a beautiful life, a beautiful action and so on. It's not merely the enjoyment of beautiful objects, it refers to the discernment of beauty in thoughts, emotions, actions... I have no ability to state in words clearly but the perception of Beauty is close to touching Eternity. For me, a person who have a virtue to perceive beauty exceeds any wise man not seeing the beautiful. Real wisdom cannot offend the beauty, only ignorance is capable on it. As though this vision expresses a  gratitude to the Source of all beauty, but the insult of beauty strikes blow to something important and sacred. I can be mistaken in many things but not in it. Certainly, the ordinary person is not guilty in limitation of its vision and cannot get insights into reality but it does not excuse an insult of beauty also. Whoever sneers at her name can no longer pray sincerely and that can change this person irreparably.
When the invisible and the ineffable becomes accessible to your heart, this constitutes the transformation of the lower soul to the higher spirit of the self, from nafs into ruh.

 All our human history is movement to Beauty, an ascent towards a horizon that always surpasses us. We cannot reach it but we can aspire to it, to raise our gaze to this improbable horizon. If only we do not turn a back to it. The main thing is not to accept for real this illusion of beauty in our world, an illusion superficial and blinding which soon turns into its opposite.The distinction in a direction: downwards or aloft.
Authentic beauty touches us and unlocks the deep yearning of our hearts to grasping the profound meaning of our existence. It points us beyond ourselves, can become a path towards the transcendent, towards the Mystery of which we are part.
After all 
"Whichever way you turn, there is the Face of God" (al-Baqarah, 2:115).

Frederic Edwin Church, Rainy Season in the Tropics