Beauté & âme du monde

Beauty is the manifest anima mundi - and do notice here it is neither transcendent to the manifest or hiddenly immanent within, but refers to appearances as such, created as they are, in the forms with which they are given, sense data, bare facts, Venus Nudata.

Citation extraite de :

James Hillman, The Thought of the Heart & the Soul of the World, Spring, 1992

Image : Venus & Cupido. Lucas Cranach le jeune.