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The point is that one can verbalize many qualities such as ‘beautiful forms, beautifully executed’, but it depends on motive with which it is expressed how outcome will be decided. And this brings one to O, which will never be known – not the ‘form’, the evolution, but that from which it evolves – the ultimate reality.
Growth as the criterion (not cure). But what of the cancerous growth? And once one admits a standard of values, one is back in the circle: ‘who or what or how’ is the growth assessed – Life? Death? The problem grows with its solution. There is no solution, or – as St John of the Cross put it – “The soul is now, as it were, undergoing a cure in order that it may regain its health – its health being God himself.”
A capacity for growth might be better. But how is such a capacity to be assessed? Has it to be assessed? These continuing questions themselves may betray a fallacy, in that they are at once evidence of growth and afford evidence of an existence of pseudo-growth – premature formulation of next question long before that stage has been reached.