There has never been a time
when you and I have not existed...
There will never be a time
when we will cease to be.
~ from the BHAGAVAD GITA
To the medieval thinker beauty was not a value independent of others, but rather the radiance of truth, the splendor of ontological perfection, and that quality of things which reflects their origin in God. Light and luminous objects, no less than musical consonance, conveyed an insight into the perfection of the cosmos, and a divination of the Creator.