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Using the precept in the title, Pierre Brunel wanted to show how François Cheng, in his The Way of Beauty: Five Meditations for Spiritual Transformation, extended the mission that Rilke had assigned to the poet to all humans. Following the order of these five meditations, he evokes the connection between Nature’s beauty and the beauty of woman, Baudelaire’s oscillation between fascination and doubt that this apparent beauty inspires, pushing the paradox of beauty found within the bizarre toward a question about the beauty of ugliness and of the demonic, and then returns to a new connection between Rilke and Cheng under the sign of the Open and “this magical thing that is art” when it promotes such openness.