Beauty is a mysterious concept. In our world, we recognize beautiful people and beautiful works of art; beauty manifests itself with stunning force and draws our attention.

Astarte’s identity in Ancient Greece was Aphrodite, the Queen of love and beauty. According to mythology, her beauty did bewilder all beings, with Gods, Armies, and whole Nations all dying and fighting just for the chance to gaze upon her for even a fleeting moment.

Behind this mysterious power, Plato has penetrated. The Great Teacher Plato has stated thus: "Beautiful is what is measured, harmonious, and proportionate."

As a final state, beauty is the representation of many unified virtues that are all in balance, proportion, and unity.

A beautiful soul shall therefore be the one that is rectified, harmonious, and proportionate in action, behavior, and ethics. Just as the body can be sculpted to exit a state of disorder, so too can the beauty of the soul be brought forth through the application of the Virtues of Aphrodite.

Plato then, when asked, pointed at the Heavens and said: "The supernal realms are filled and rife with the Beauty of the Great God. In there, nothing is disharmonious, nothing is not measured, nothing is disproportionate."

In the material world, as manifestations of the Divine, the above state of existence is distant from us, but still accessible; we must seek to become beautiful, not only in our exterior, but most importantly, in our internal world.

The beautiful soul will be born out of the mind that is pure, orderly, and proportionate to the flow of consciousness that keeps increasing.

Thinking of all of these, the Disciple declared to Aphrodite: "Great Goddess, you are so beautiful that this beauty holds me in awe, admiration, and even terror!"

Lady Aphrodite responded: "Let me remind you that Lucifer has always been the most beautiful in all of Heaven, as am I, the closest one to the Cosmic Source. Find the meaning in this statement, and the Virtue of Beauty will unveil Herself before you."