--Now, unlike many of the other terms I’ve been describing, the Beauty of God isn’t one that requires a special word, but since it fits in with the other omni’s we’ve been using, I thought it would be worth mentioning here.
--But the idea is quite simple. God is beautiful in the sense that any way in which you truly behold Him (through the eyes, the mind, the spirit, whatever) is always going to entail an overwhelming sense of aesthetic or artistic appeal.
--Beautiful things are things we not merely like to look at, but we lose ourselves momentarily or for an even longer time in looking at them. We long to look at them and find ourselves captivated by them and wanting the experience of seeing them to go on and not end.
--And we want to share that experience immediately with other people.
--And this is merely the way it works with our visual sense.
--Every experience like this is really a pointer toward the Beauty of God, Who is so compelling and majestic that we literally lose awareness of anything else when we are near Him or in “sight” of Him.
--So it’s not merely that God is beautiful. That’s obvious.
--It’s that God is Beauty itself in the sense that all other forms and experiences of beauty are just reminders or hints of Him and that He is the source and standard of the very idea of something being aesthetically appealing.
--That’s why when people speak of God, they always find themselves a bit stymied by the limits of language, just as it’s virtually impossible to convey love in words. So we must resort to poetry or to song or dance to somehow convey the depth and motivational power of encountering something so beautiful.
--It’s also interesting as an after-note that there’s no widely used term for this one, perhaps Omnibellus or Omnibellaforma, but I know not nearly enough Latin to invent words in that language.
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