Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images.

Peter Redgrove
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I think the quote says that we cannot assume that the book of life is a single encrypted meaning. The book of life is an ever expanding riddle of multiple images, and we must read it as such. As humans we make assumptions based on our limited perspectives. However, if we step outside our biases and look at this quote from a new perspective, we can find a new meaning to it.

If we were to read the book of life as a puzzle, then we would see that there is more than one meaning and that our assumptions about the book of life are wrong. The quote should be interpreted as: "We cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images."

Source: The Black Goddess And The Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses And Their Common Sense

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