If all this is accurate, any writer willing to ponder the accord between Beauty & Truth can evolve their craft. . . and their soul life. In this digital frontier, it'll be like panning for gold.

We need those prospectors more than ever now.

“If the spiritual shines through the ugly, even the ugly becomes beautiful. In art it is upon a relation to the spiritual that beauty depends."

This part is especially useful for those tasked with writing about the ugly:

"Even when art wishes to represent the ugly, the disagreeable, it is concerned, not with the sensory-disagreeable as such, but with the spiritual which proclaims its nature in the midst of unpleasantness.”

"The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the world."

"All genuine art seeks the spirit."

"What we apprehend with our senses does not need to shine for us; it exists. It is the spiritual that shines, radiating into the sensory, proclaiming its being even in the sensory."

"Thus, the genius of language reveals itself.

And we should ask. . .what is our goal?"

In lecture GA276 (1923), "The Arts & Their Mission-Lecture VI," Rudolf Steiner writes more on this subtle relationship between Beauty and Truth in the context of the ugly.
He writes,

"[B]eauty reveals inwardness through outer form; a shining radiates outward into the world. . . ."

Even if you toil in an industry led by algorithms, maybe, after undergoing an inner process of your own cultivating Beauty, Truth emerges--effortlessly, as art.

Maybe Beauty is the way, and Truth, like the dawn, is what follows.

He's pointing to something there. That perhaps, if you make your inner life beautiful, that Truth will find you and shine through whatever you create.

Truth is elusive when sought for outwardly in a race against Time and one’s own better nature.
The Romantics got this. Didn't Keats write, "‘Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty,’—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"?

A lot of empty theorizing in a cascade of tacit one-upmanship. Post after post after post, a sputtering black cloud of exhaust fumes.

Where's the Truth? Where's the Beauty?

Let's say you're an honest writer in pursuit of the Truth, grinding for the media machine. Your industry is tough & soul-killing. Newsworthy events = fresh kill & blow flies. Your spin on any story quickly dogpiles w/ others' louder voices.

The result?

What is the best source of his you would recommend for an in-depth discussion of this?

Very interesting! Will need to read up on Sanford then.

We can also project very positive qualities onto admired others--dimensions that can be better developed in ourselves.

The integration of these positive projections is equally important as working through the negative ones.

Apollo & Clytie or Eros & Psyche come to mind. Light can be blinding!

Re: 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 and eros – reminded me of something Tom Cheetham wrote: