beautiful one, I love.

There is no concrete definition of beauty, but one that I like and have heard most often is "that which pleases in contemplation."

The golden rectangle is proven to be more aesthetically pleasing than any other rectangle, and has been used in architecture and other art for just this reason.

Also Phi is the ONLY number (1.6180...) that when diminished by one is its own reciprocal. Or in math language:

φ-1=1/φ

Yes, the only number.
This divine proportion is approximately equal to the ratio 8:5 which is the ratio of the frequencies of the major sixth. This musical interval is said to be more aesthetically appealing than any other musical interval.

Hmmm, well you decide for yourself.


our purity of taste is best tested by its universality. if we can only admire this thing or that, we may be sure that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature. but if we can perceive beauty in everything of God's doing, we may argue that we have reached the true perception of its universal laws. hence, false taste may be know by its fastidiousness, by its demands of pomp, splendor, and unusual combination; by its enjoyment only of particular styles and modes of things, and by its pride also, for it is for ever meddling, mending, accumulating, and self-exulting, its eye is always upon itself, and it tests all things around it by the way they fit it. But true taste is for ever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy, lamenting over itself, and testing itself by the way that it fits things.

From "The True and Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion" by Ruskin


More than ever these days I have been contemplating the ultimate and divine beauty of the Risen Lord. I have no face to look at, but my inner eye is inclined to his character, his Love and Humility, and his creation... and his apparent aptitude for mathematics. We can learn much from it.