July 20, 2025

Japanese painting of a Geisha
(芸者) unknown author

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What is beauty? | July 20, 2025

Beauty is the quality that makes quantity stand out among others, it is what brings the material world into the transcendent realm and prompts the attention of man in the form of worship, for the material that can be said to be beautiful is fundamentally righteous in every particle. Man sees beauty all around him: within himself, in the constitution of other men, in the grace of the natural motion, and within the whole creation. Verily, beauty is the very justification for man's consciousnesses, for beauty is enough in and of itself to justify man's awareness of himself and other men in the world, and the world itself, and without beauty, the fundamental quality at the core of discrimination, there would be no world to react to—no call to seek the truth and to traverse the high seas, no call to adventure, and no reason for being in the first place. Any man of sensible predilection would surely realize that there are those materials in the world that deserve to be extolled, for they bring out the sacred and the transcendent in the creation and in turn within man when compared to the many dull materials of the dozens that acts merely for the creation of more quantities; these are the materials of the nihilistic enterprise, and the same sensible man would also surely recognize the contemporary and lifeless nature of these materials and that they as such are not deserving of special distinction, for they are not and cannot be said to be beautiful. The natural and the organic appears to the sensible man as more beautiful than: the contrived, the schematic, the algorithmic, the mathematical, and the orchestrated; for the essence of beauty is the effortless ability of the materialistic to bring out quality, or rather it is the undeniable quality of the material. This is why people almost always value quality more than quantity, for there is something to be said about the relationship between quality and beauty. However, beauty and quality are not the same thing: beauty does not require any justification, for its own and apparent existence is in and of itself essentially good and good things do not require justification, even though beauty often fails to perform a merely instrumental purpose; quality on the other hand is self justifiable, thus it requires no further justification than its own act and any sensible man recognize this about quality, whether the quality perform an instrumental role or not. I will add that more often than not something that can be said to be of high quality does performs an instrumental role, apart from something merely beautiful, but on occasion it may be the case that men are not privy to the instrumentality of some quality, thus it can be said that that quality fails to perform a clear instrumental role, within the material domain at least.

    What would there be of the masculine spirit without beauty in the world? Beauty is the quality of the material that prompts man to seek out the creation; it is what keeps man in perpetual motion towards the sacred and toward the higher, and even within the liberal paradigm this truth has not been shaken. But in modern times, man has lost sight of the truly beautiful and instead he has replaced beauty with the concept of beauty or rather the idea that something is beautiful, whether this is true or not; this is often seen in the many confusions that are derived from the humanist axiom such as egalitarianism and complete tolerance. Modern man has invented or rather forced himself into totalitarianism, for when man is out of tune with the natural laws and the celestial order his reality becomes increasingly unstable and ready to collapse in on him, and in order to defend against Yahweh's constant push against his sin he has promoted mass hysteria and mass enforcement, on enormous scales, of such things that are not beautiful but that man has deemed to be or demanded to be beautiful, and this has often been carried out in the name of compassion. The totalitarian tendency of modern man, the rule of the beast, can be summed up as: the artificial and the contrived.

Hida Shūzan (飛田 周山)
Withdrawal of the devils (悪魔)

    Therefore in this context, the era of the Kali Yuga appears as something necessary, as something good and indeed the action of the divine in order to put the scales of the celestial order into proper balance, or in order to put beauty back into its proper place and to cast out those things that are not in fact beautiful, the demons of the modern world. This may surely seem harsh, particularly for the man of the liberal mind, but this is not harsh, for the divine force is not tolerant of those things that do not deserve to be tolerated, thus the divine wrath is actually and truly compassionate, for it acts against evil and the impure particles that have infested the mind of modern men and contaminated the otherwise good conscience of the able man. When man has made himself unable with the full intention to make himself blind to some part of the righteous he deserves to be punished, and such is indeed the case with modern man. It may be fancy to tolerate every act under the sun, but it is still a crime carried out against the good conscience of man himself, in the form of an abject disregard for tradition, for his ancestors, and for the societal fabric. The sacred and the divine know not of the ways of the willing chaos, and as such the modern world ought to be and will be put into proper order, even if great tribulations are necessary to man into proper harmony with nature.

    Beauty exists all around and the closer you come towards true enlightenment and salvation, the more in tune with nature and natures ways you will become, and this will surely enable you to see the beauty all around you. You do not need to define beauty, for beauty does not perform any instrumental function; you only need to see it for yourself. Celibacy and the preservation of sexual purity will guide you towards beauty and towards the light – embrace the ways of the divine.

Reginald Drax – July 20, 2025.