"Many are the paths we travel. Whoever observes and compares them will see marvelous Figures emerge; Figures that appear to belong to the great Cipher-script we see everywhere: on wings and eggshells, in clouds, in the snow, in crystals and in the formation of rocks, in freezing waters, on the inside and outside of mountains, of plants, of animals and of human beings, in the lights of the heavens, on panes of pitch and glass when stroked or struck, in the filings around a magnet and in the strange conjunctions of Chance. In these we find a presentiment of the key, of the grammar of this Miracle-script. .." --NOVALIS, c.1800 C.E.