On page 119, as discussed in class today, Frye cites Hooker on man's apocalyptic ability, or mankind's capacities for infinite reality or being. The anagogic phase "imitates the total dream of man." Hooker claims that the desire man has for the infinite is a system inherent of nature. Man's dream of the infinite is both an imitation and a product of nature. Man sees the vastness of the cosmos and the intangible, untamable breadth of things. He seeks to attain such vastness, such unconquerable mass, that is found in the natural world, but Hooker argues that man tends to strive for intellectual and sensual perfection that seems to occur so mathematically perfect in the known avenues of nature, and in that man is born with such interests naturally instilled in them through commonly occuring thoughts, the product of nature. The observable universe is infinite in its solitude and something we wish to solve the complexeties of, but it is a natural event for humans to desire to do so. In our lust to be something further than is permitable for humanity, we are experiencing a natural sequence of nature: the passionate impulses for infinity and perfection.
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