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Geometrical figures are, as it were, the framework or skeleton of reality but although they are
reduced to the bare bones they are by no means dead, for they represent living realities in man
and the universe. And this is why, in order to interpret them, we have to breathe the life of the
spirit into them: they will mean nothing to us if we are content to study them only as they occur
outside ourselves.
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From the earliest dys of history, men have sought a language which would be both universal and
synthetic, a language capable of expressing the richest and most complex realities while, at the
same time, reducing them to the barest essentials. It is this research that led to the discovery
of images and symbols. Images and symbols speak: they have their own language, but the absolute
language if symbols is that of geometric figures.
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