I remember being in Literature class and listening to discussions on John Keats poetry by my Lit teacher when one day he read from Ode on a Grecian Urn that " Beauty is truth and truth beauty, that is all you know and all you need to know" and later that "First in beauty is first in might".
He turned to me - "Do you agree with that?" he asked.
I thought a second or two, and answered "Yes".
He screamed at me accusingly "You would!!"
I felt so ashamed. I thought,...."Well, ok,....I don't agree with Keats".
Now that I have had many years to think about it, I feel angry that I was made to feel ashamed of my position.
I think about it now - yes ! I do agree with Keats! For beauty, the essence of, has to do with much more then physical good looks. It is kindness, justice, truth, morality ......GOODNESS.
All want goodness to be first in might. What is the alternative? That "badness" be first in might?
Badness/ugliness is only comfortable with "winning" once beauty/goodness reigns. That way, they can get away with their shit.
But not even badness/ugliness wants badness/ugliness to reign supreme constantly. .
Think of the orcs in the epic movie Lord of the Rings. Orcs were once elves who were captures and tortured into deformity and brutishness. They are portrayed as beastile and wild and warlike. Their deformity was a testament to the ugliness/badness of the one who made them look like that through torture.
Who wants to be tortured? Not even those orcs would have liked the badness or ugliness of spirit that took away their goodness.
First in beauty must be first in might. Light of soul and spirit must rule.
Goodness must be sovereign.
If it were otherwise, not even the proverbial ugly, i.e. the bad of spirit, soul,....i.e the darkness ...... would like it.
Demons spend all their time,..... fleeing hell.

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