In a passage where he moves back and forth between the structure of life and the structure of his plays, Havel makes some interesting points that for me produce some pleasant echoes in some of the deeper chambers opening off of a prolonged meditation on the truths taught in Second Nephi Chapter 2 -
"Only reality that is somehow structured can form the backdrop or be the external manifestation of a higher structure, one that can in turn give it meaning. And after all, we can only identify the otherwise incomprehensible signs of the higher metastructure against the backdrop of the lower structure's comprehensibility. In short, mystery would be unthinkable without some kind of order, because how else do mysteries and miracles declare themselves, except by deviating from a given order, thus providing a disturbing insight into the unknown territories of 'higher' structures.....where everything is permitted, nothing can surprise...mystery has the power to disturb only on the carefully constructed terrain of transparency. Transcendence can only take place when there is something to transcend;"
Vaclav Havel
Letters to Olga
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