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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.

A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest 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.
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.
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A summary of the reported intentions of historical craftsmen.
The works of Nolde, Matisse, Bonnard, van Gogh and a few modern buildings touch a modern wellspring that is almost the same as the mystical wellspring that inspired historical works, yet in a non‑religious form.
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The observation that non‑religious modern works can still achieve a comparable spiritual quality, showing the rootstock is not confined to traditional religion.

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Living structure will always rely on its connection to the same ground which underlay traditional forms of mysticism.claim0.858
A metaphysical assertion that the ground of all things is a necessary, permanent condition for creating living structure.
Wholeness is a real structure, an actual 'thing' in itself, not merely a way of focusing on the gestalt.claim0.848
Asserts the ontological reality of wholeness as a physical/mathematical structure.
The deepest living structure in buildings is not attainable without some new understanding, without a new faith based on a new physical and intellectual grasp of the nature of the material universe.claim0.847
A strong conditional: the creation of the highest living structure requires a cosmology that reunites self and matter in terms consistent with modern science.
Living structure might even be defined as 'that which pleases us'—that which truly pleases us.claim0.843
A proposed operational definition of living structure in terms of genuine pleasure.
The structure of wholeness, the more you encounter it, makes you more and more able to feel the reality and existence of the Ground.claim0.843
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.claim0.843
A more detailed version of the practical‑mechanism claim, positioning mysticism as a cognitive tool.
The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.842
The intricate and beautiful structure of living centers comes about naturally, and most of the time without effort, as a result of the repeated application of structure-preserving transformations to the wholeness which exists.claim0.841
Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.