FREEDOM IN SELF-REALIZATION

The religious feeling of this great intensity is as free subjectively as it is restrained in the physical sense. This restraint is not so put on it; it is spontaneous. Wherever the flash of perfect beauty falls on the heart of man, its effect is as of lightning. This vision lifts the human consciousness from the physical plane where it receives the kiss of Beauty, into the salient regions of ecstasy to the pang of separation from it. The devotee of Beauty thus rises and falls into himself. Both the sorrow and joy of the true religious feeling are equally glorious; they react on each other to a still higher fulfilment.