Mystical tradition, by asking the believer to concentrate on God—the ground of all things, in pure humility—helped the artist dissolve images and focus on reality as it is, thereby enabling structure‑preserving steps.

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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.claim0.843
  A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
• Living structure will always rely on its connection to the same ground which underlay traditional forms of mysticism.claim0.815
  A metaphysical assertion that the ground of all things is a necessary, permanent condition for creating living structure.
• The great works of traditional art were most often created in a context where the maker was trying to become one with God or lose themselves in the ground.claim0.802
  A summary of the reported intentions of historical craftsmen.
• This is focused on beauty. It is brutal, only because, to do it, we must forget our responsibilities and the subtleties of site and function, and enter the play of pure forms with as much emphasis on feeling, art, and structure alone as we can.claim0.795
  Defines brutality as the temporary forgetting of practical responsibilities to focus purely on structural beauty
• In order to make buildings by unfolding - hence by structure-preserving transformations - it is necessary, truly, to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.quote0.794
  Connection between process, attention, and love.
• What is it about the works made in a mystical tradition that marks them and sets them apart?question0.788
  The central interrogative that drives the chapter's investigation into the special quality of religiously‑embedded art.
• The wholesomeness and integrity of a person's existence is directly dependent on the extent to which that person can sustain an inner relatedness with the world, which itself depends on the extent of living structure.hypothesis0.787
  Promised for Book 4, chapter 4 (Note 15).
• I believe it is a necessary state of mind, without which it is not possible to reach the purity of structure needed to create a living thing.claim0.785
  The indispensability of the gift-to-God intention for creating life in buildings.