The Beautiful Necessity by Claude Fayette Bragdon
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Title: The Beautiful Necessity
Author: Claude Fayette Bragdon
Release Date: June 18, 2004 [eBook #12648]
Language: English
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THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY
Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture
by CLAUDE BRAGDON, F.A.I.A.
MCMXXII
"Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity" --EMERSON
By the Same Author: Episodes From An Unwritten History The Golden Person In The Heart Architecture And Democracy A Primer Of Higher Space Four Dimensional Vistas Projective Ornament Oracle
CONTENTS
I THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE
II UNITY AND POLARITY
III CHANGELESS CHANGE
IV THE BODILY TEMPLE
V LATENT GEOMETRY
VI THE ARITHMETIC OF BEAUTY
VII FROZEN MUSIC
CONCLUSION
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
The Beautiful Necessity was first published in 1910. Save for a slim volume of privately printed verse it was my first book. I worked hard on it. Fifteen years elapsed between its beginning and completion; it was twice published serially--written, rewritten and tre-written--before it reached its ultimate incarnation in book form.
Confronted now with the opportunity to revise the text again, I find myself in