The compelling and driving force behind the Shakers' idea of the hanging chairs was the creation of the crown structure of centers with a pure spiritual light.

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• The makers of Chartres consciously created a structure filled with beings, with millions of living centers.claim0.751
  Interpretation of Chartres Cathedral as a deliberate, being-filled construction.
• The Shaker box finger joint started as a formal intuition about the field of centers, and then gradually fitted itself to the functional problem at hand.claim0.750
  Example supporting the thesis that beauty precedes and leads to function.
• The core of the modern design movement—striving for originality, newness, breaking with tradition—was a structure-destroying force that denied unfolding.claim0.749
  Fundamental critique of modernism.
• In buildings, especially, the success of the process will be judged by the extent to which these middle-range entities appear with their own distinct symmetries, with their own definite and distinct force as strong centers.claim0.742
  Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process
• 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.claim0.741
  A more detailed version of the practical‑mechanism claim, positioning mysticism as a cognitive tool.
• The structure which is created by a feeling for centers and by a conscious and deliberate aim towards the feeling of the whole, will often turn out to be an efficient structure.claim0.739
  Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.
• The more centers are packed and overlapped, each helping and intensifying the others, the more an object comes to life.claim0.736
  The formula for profound life, as seen in the Temple of Hera.
• Certain configurations of centers have such organizing force that they create entirely new levels of intensity within the centers themselves and utterly transmute the material character of space.hypothesis0.735
  Suggests that sufficiently intense fields of centers transcend ordinary matter.