knowledge of the divinity was given to a chosen few. . . . 
     The letter appears as the flesh; but the spiritual sense 
     within is known as divinity. This is what we find in 
     studying Leviticus . . . Blessed are the eyes which see 
     divine spirit though the letters veil. (p. 1)

     The theme of the letter and the spirit, a dichotomy 
deriving from writing, was frequently alluded to by Our Lord in 
his “It is written, but I say unto you.” The prophets had usually 
been at war with the scribes in Israel. This theme enters into 
the very texture of medieval thought and sensibility, as in the 
technique of the “gloss” to release the light from within the 
text, the technique of the illumination as light through  not on , 
and the very mode of Gothic architecture itself. As Otto von 
Simson states in The Gothic Cathedral  (pp. 3­4):