2011
9. 04
Sensation and Doubt -- The processes of meaning and communication that Kepler describes are on the same continuum. They have the same origin, since God is both the Object of meaning and the Source of the communication. At the other pole, man is both a sign in the "book" and the recipient of the sign. As recipient, he has been endowed by God with an intelligence capable of understanding the geometric language of the world. The human mind is the simulacrum of the divine mind, and geometric archetypes are innate to him, such that observation does no more than elicit their recollection... The result is anamnesis: "Just as objects seen from the outside make us remember those we have already known, likewise the mathematics of the senses, if they are recognized, excite an intellectual mathematics, previously present to the inner man, such that there actively shines within the soul what beforehand was hidden beneath the veil of potentiality." (Hallyn, The Poetic Structure of the World, p. 172-173)
