MDMD Kepler's Trinity

[Terrance]

For Kepler, the three things at rest in the universe, the sun, the
stars, and the "immediate" space, corresponded receptively to the
Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit. 

For Kepler, mathematics revealed
the inherent and hidden harmony of the entire universe. If one looks at
his
texts, this fact is evident. In his Cosmographical Mystery (1596),
Kepler looks
at the universe as a representation of the Trinity. In this view, the
sun is at the
center, representing God; stars, reflection of light, correspond to
Jesus; the
planets and space, standing between the sun and the fixed stars,
symbolize the
Holy Spirit (Voss). Furthermore Kepler goes on to look at the
proportions of
the planetary orbits and connects them with the five perfect solids.
Developing
this further, Kepler was able to construct the universe, with the same
proportionalities, by inscribing or circumscribing spheres around the
five solids
(Voss):

In his early period, Kepler attempted to account for the number of
planets in the "immediate" space  and their respective distances from
the sun by means of five regular solids, one solid fitting between the
six planets.  5 & 6 These are important numbers in this novel (and I'll
say more on these later, but that inverted star might have to do with
the inverted book of genesis Pynchon is constructing here-an ironic
parody-and the Calendar of Christ). 

 Gravity in Kepler's system is akin if not identical to Justice in
Confucious. 
Remember, that in VL P turns directly to James and Emerson (East) and to
Native American religions and indirectly to Anaxagoras (the divine
justice). 
The rain season, the flood,  serves the same purposes in the Cape as
the  flood (ironically the use of lime by the slaves) in religions
across cultures, to purify, to bring new life, to wash away death and
life, to baptize, to resurrect, to return to the beginning of time or to
timelessness, it is the forces of justice, and poor Mason, the bug hits
him right in the face, can't feel it.