The whole model was guided by the intuition that the very order and physical operations of the universe were expressive of an invisible world; “physics” was a subdiscipline of theology. And so, in this way, nature could be thought of as a great metaphor, a sort of physical, palpable, observable, scientific “myth,” which itself was a transposition of the invisible into the visible world, at least to the extent the “impoverished” language of the natural, visible world could accommodate the higher.
