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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.

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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The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.
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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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What of our modern works?
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The rhetorical question that opens section 6, asking whether the same profound quality has appeared outside religious origins.

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The great life in works by Matisse and van Gogh is somewhat misleading because the same feeling of life can occur in a dirty hut or slum.claim0.786
Warns against equating life only with high art; ordinariness can have equal life.
The Matisse drawing has the strongest field of centers among the three compared 20th-century artworks and correspondingly the deepest personal feelingclaim0.770
Demonstrates the correlation between field-of-centers strength and personal feeling using three famous drawings
Matisse's painting process is exactly the kind of step-by-step adaptation with feedback: each brushstroke is a response to the actual emerging painting, making it continuously better.claim0.769
The Matisse film as an exemplar of living process in art.
Matisse's drawing actions are dominated by concern for the overall balance, coherence, and form of the whole, not by particular details.claim0.763
Observation used to illustrate the principle that great painters work from the whole.
The alternative to Modernism in the arts does not consist merely of returning to the past for inspiration but in discovering 'concretely and with a clear mind' what carpet-weavers, artists and builders of the past knew that we do not.claim0.763
Claim about the nature of a genuine alternative to Modernism.
The similarity of different mystical teachings—Christian, Zen, Mahayana, Tibetan, Tantric, Hopi, Cabalistic, Islamic, Taoist, Sufi—has been emphasized many times, and all point to a nameless ground.claim0.761
The perennial philosophy claim, used to support the universality of the ground concept.
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.claim0.756
A summary of the reported intentions of historical craftsmen.
The buildings and paintings of medieval Florence felt as if something more specific had been intended, reached for, and then achieved, beyond just the practical‑mental atmosphere and pace of great religion.claim0.751
Alexander's personal report of being shaken by the Florentine works, suggesting an ineffable extra dimension to mystical creation.