Throughout history, some cultures have tried to suppress things beautiful. While they succeeded to some extent, beauty always found its way, just as water finds the sea.
According to an ancient oral tradition, Jews are instructed to beautify themselves in carrying out their religious duty. They are told to carve a beautiful horn to play for religious services and make beautiful the fringes of a prayer shawl. The parchment upon which the words of God are written should be beautiful and the words written in the holy book penned in beautiful ink with a beautiful quill. The Torah itself should be wrapped in beautiful silk fabric.
Equating beauty with holiness was also exhibited by monks during medieval times as they created illuminated manuscripts. And in the Muslim tradition, the beauty of the language and imagery of the Koran is meant to enhance the appreciation of the scriptures.The Amish believe that beauty takes you away from God, and personal displays of beauty are forms of vanity, a type of idolatry, as it makes the individual person the most important thing and therefore above God.
There, beauty found its outlet, as it also did amongst Amish women. Quilt-making began with the same simplicity as everything else in Amish life. The first quilts were made of a single solid color—brown, blue, black, or rust. However, from the beginning, the stitching contained a nod to creative beauty. Holding the pieces together were stitches that created swirling feathers, curves, and grids.
The production of beauty may be frowned upon, it may be outlawed, it may go out of fashion, but it always finds its way back into the lives of people, just as water finds its way to the sea.is Professor Emeritus of University Studies, Hofstra University and Leader Emeritus, Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island. He is the author of more than 25 books, includingIt’s increasingly common for someone to be diagnosed with a condition such as ADHD or autism as an adult.
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