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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):