Tag: Robert Lawlor
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‘Geometry attempts to recapture the orderly movement from an infinite formlessness to an endless interconnected array of forms, and in recreating this mysterious passage from One to Two, it renders it symbolically visible. From both the metaphysical and natural points of view it is false to say that in order to arrive at two, you…
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‘What they (the geometers) really seek is to get sight of those realities which can be seen only by the mind.’ Plato, Republic, VII
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‘The implicit goal of this (classical) education was to enable the mind to become a channel through which the ‘earth’ (the level of manifested form) could receive the abstract, cosmic life of the heavens. The practice of geometry was an approach to the way in which the universe is ordered and sustained. Geometric diagrams can…
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‘What is God? He is length, width, height and depth.’ – St Bernard of Clairvaux, On Consideration
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‘All our senses function in response to the geometrical differences inherent in the stimuli they receive. When we smell a rose we are not responding to the chemical substances of its perfume, but instead to the geometry of their molecular construction. Any chemical substance that is bonded together in the same geometry as that of…
Roseena Veronika Hussain 