For Plato and for Coleridge, the way through the thicket is to look through or beyond experience, as geometry teaches us, and find the true form of things with the mind’s eye. Don’t look for the idea of church or state in the various forms they have taken across the ages. Instead consider their aim, their purpose; what people have been addressing as they worked to create more perfect expressions. These are the postulates of political geometry, the foundational ideas for subsequent theorems.
