Thus the way of beauty is the way of the heart. The Initiate on The Path Of Beauty gradually recognizes, learns, and applies for the good, The Law Of Beauty, which reveals how beauty leads to joy. Nothing so tests the heart as conscious patience. It then becomes one of the Initiate's greatest goals to build a bridge and connect these two laws in consciousness. It is truly a very personal Bridge of Joyous-Patience.
Beauty leads to joy.
Patience is the source of Bliss. If we can discern where, if at all, joy and patience become two ends of the same bridge, then truly we could say that The Path of Beauty leads to bliss. We may even discover what the beauty of joyous-patience is. This should put us on the right track to see if there is a connection between joy and patience, for if there is none, then we have no bridge connecting beauty and bliss. To ask if we can have joy without patience is the same as asking if we can have joy with impatience.