Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to humans is one of the reasons that humanity is the image of God.

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Geometry, coeternal with God and shining in the divine Mind, gave God the pattern... by which he laid out the world so that it might be best and most beautiful and finally most like the Creator. | As quoted by Judith V. Field, Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology (1988), p. 123. | Unsourced variant-->

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