MDMD Why Kepler?

[Terrance]

Because Kepler argues for a comprehensive principle, nothing is
arbitrary, everything has a reason. 

Einstein too, searched for the divine in the universe free of
arbitrariness. 

We often think this was the case with Newton, but it was not. Laplace
eliminates the arbitrary will of God from Newton's system and Kepler
goes further, posing a comprehensive harmony (music of the spheres and
5&6) in the world.  a reason can be given for everything, as Plato and
as Leibniz require. 


Johannes Kepler sought a way to reconcile the lawgiving, orderly God of
the Bible with the natural motions of the universe.


http://www.daystarcom.org/interview/06interview.htm

This unpublished sermon tells something else even more interesting, that
is, Wicks says that we can know and feel this reason, this comprehensive
principle, like gravity or love. It seems we can also  hear the music of
the spheres. 

At least Dixon can even if he doesn't know it. 

Dixon, half way to a hindoo after being tossed out of the Society, tries
to teach Mason to sit in silence, to accept as it were, the Quaker's 
Grace. Dixon  is fast becoming Newton's or God's bodiless Sensorium. The
body of god stuff again. 

Pelog is what Dixon hears, the spheres, the Wind. 

Just beautiful this Pynchon guy. 

If you have questions about what the hell I am talking about, please
ask.