Simone Weil on beauty and God

    The Saunterer is a pantheist, feeling a connection between the beauty of wild nature and the forces that created it - a god, for lack of a better word. Simone Weil goes one step higher (lower in a pantheist’s view) to a connection between beauty in anything and a Creator, the God of religion:   

In everything which gives us the pure authentic feeling of beauty there is really the presence of God. There is, as it were, an incarnation of God in the world, and it is indicated by beauty.
    The beauty is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.
    Hence all art of the highest order is religious in essence. (That is what people have forgotten today.) A Gregorian melody is as powerful a witness as the death of a martyr. (Quoted from The Simone Weil Reader, by George A. Panichas. New York: Moyer Bell Limited. 1977. p. 379.)

    For a brief biography of Simone Weil, click here.