The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1922)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · New York, A. A. Knopf · leaf 75
akably masculine:the ratio of their breadth to their height is the ratio of thebreadth to the heightof a man (Illustra-tion 40). At certain periodsof the worlds history,periods of mysticalenlightenment, menhave been wont to usethe human figure, thesouls temple, as a sortof archetype for sa-cred… … THE BODILY TEMPLE 69 ures of India and China—all these belong scarcely less to the do-main of architecture than of sculpture. The relation above re-ferred to however is a matter more subtle and occult than mereobvious imitation on a large scale, being based upon some corres-pondence of parts, or…
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