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Living structure will always rely on its connection to the same ground which underlay traditional forms of mysticism.

A metaphysical assertion that the ground of all things is a necessary, permanent condition for creating living structure.

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The success of mystical tradition in creating life has a practical explanation: it helped the artist dissolve his images, constructs, and concepts, and focus on reality as it is—the structure of wholeness—enabling structure‑preserving steps.
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A mechanistic bridge between religious devotion and the process of Book 2; belief in God operated as a cognitive tool to see wholeness.

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The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.858
A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
There is nothing except the living structure of the world, and this living structure is all we need to reason with.claim0.844
Radical assertion that function reduces to living structure, eliminating the need for external goals.
Unless we have a form language which supports the necessities of living structure, then living structure is simply out of our reach.quote0.843
Emphasizes the necessity of a form language for achieving living structure.
Living structure might even be defined as 'that which pleases us'—that which truly pleases us.claim0.842
A proposed operational definition of living structure in terms of genuine pleasure.
The structure we know as living structure is just that kind of structure which has unfolded smoothly and naturally, arising step by step from what exists, preserving the structure of what exists.claim0.838
Defines living structure as the product of a truthful unfolding process that respects and preserves existing wholeness.
The existence of living structure, as defined in The Nature of Order, requires modifications in our physical picture of the world, not only in the picture we have of architecture.claim0.837
The closing claim of the chapter's mid-book appendix, asserting that the theory of centers has implications for physics.
Unless we have a form language that supports the necessities of living structure, then living structure is simply out of our reach.claim0.837
Central thesis of the chapter: form language is a prerequisite for living structure.
Life and living structure will appear in the world inevitably because the mathematical way space gives rise to structure necessarily reinforces wholeness as part of its most normal evolution.claim0.835
Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness