When Things Are In Order,

Geometry Is One And Eternal Shining In The Mind Of God

It Is A Right, Yes A Duty, To Search In Cautious Manner For The Numbers, Sizes, And Weights, The Norms For Everything [god] Has Created. For He Himself Has Let Man Take Part In The Knowledge Of These Things ... For These Secrets Are Not Of The Kind Whose Research Should Be Forbidden; Rather They Are Set Before Our Eyes Like A Mirror So That By Examining Them We Observe To Some Extent The Goodness And Wisdom Of The Creator.

Geometry Has Two Great Treasures; One Is The Theorem Of Pythagoras; The Other, The Division Of A Line Into Extreme And Mean Ratio. The First We May Compare To A Measure Of Gold; The Second We May Name A Precious Jewel.

A Mind Is Accustomed To Mathematical Deduction, When Confronted With The Faulty Foundations Of Astrology, Resists A Long, Long Time, Like An Obstinate Mule, Until Compelled By Beating And Curses To Put Its Foot Into That Dirty Puddle.

A Most Unfailing Experience... Of The Excitement Of Sublunary (that Is, Human) Natures By The Conjunctions And Aspects Of The Planets Has Instructed And Compelled My Unwilling Belief.