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Why is the geometric perspective on ancient philosophical and spiritual texts unknown in modern scholarly studies?

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Why is the geometric perspective on ancient philosophical and spiritual texts unknown in modern scholarly studies?

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Primarily because in modern higher education, the people who are attracted to studying Biblical texts and other philosophically oriented works are not the same people as those who are attracted to studying mathematics and science. A scholar of ancient texts would need to be familiar with geometric relationships in order to recognize that an ancient author might use analogies from the world of nature (for example) to describe them.