法國現象學（梅洛龐蒂與巴修拉）探究了對於自然的一種同時知覺的與想像的觀看，能夠達到讓可見者與不可見者連結的一種「深度」。事物的「深度」卻不是主觀虛構的結果，而是存有的顯現。存有－顯現的想像使得一種特殊的影像，亦即，形象式物，得以出現；要解釋這種「形象式物」，可借助基督教神學中基督的「聖體」之類比。最後，宇宙的主觀想像或許遭遇到自然本身的現象性顯現模式，此顯現模式通稱為美。

The French phenomenology (M. Merleau-Ponty et G. Bachelard) has explored a perceptive and imagining vision at the same time on Nature which reaches a "depth" where the visible joins the invisible. This "depth" of things is not a result of a subjective fiction but catches a manifestation of Being. The onto-phanic imagination ever since makes appear a particular image, the imaginal, which we can explicate by an analogy with the "glorious body" of Christ in the Christian theology. Finally, this subjective imagination of cosmos maybe encounters a mode of phenomenal appearing of Nature itself which can be called the beauty.