Achtung

1.	Theology. a divinely conferred gift or power.

2.	a spiritual power or personal quality that gives an individual influence or authority over large numbers of people.

3.	the special virtue of an office, function, position, etc., that confers or is thought to confer on the person holding it an unusual ability for leadership, worthiness of veneration, or the like.

Also, char⋅ism .

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Origin:
1635-45; LL, Gk, equivalent to char- (base of cháris favor, charízesthai to favor; akin to YEARN EXHORT ) + -isma -ISM

Synonyms:
2. charm, magnetism, presence.

Oh, the research I had to do for this post!

Admiration, to be solid and lasting, must be founded on proofs from which we have no means of escaping.
---Hazlitt, 'The Indian Juggler'

There are no proofs unless they are felt on the pulses
(after Keats)

How can you admire that which is randomly given, from above, a pure gift, rather than dexterity, perseverance, effort, artistic and mental brilliance, something which is superfluous, superficial, like beauty? The magnetic charm (karma, destiny) of it, the sheer animal wonderment, the relinquishing of the self to a dazzling, magic spell.

Does God judge us by appearances?

I suspect he does.