Lo uno y lo múltiple

Es un hermoso pensamiento el de la Areopagitica de Milton (1644; cito por la edición de London: Edward Arber, 1864, p. 70), y se hace eco de ella nuestro protestantísimo manchego Juan Calderón, pero en realidad el templo de Dios más se parece al hircocervo, el monstruo de Horacio, que a otra cosa:

Yet these are the men cry'd out against for schismaticks and sectaries; as if, while the Temple of the Lord was building, some cutting, some squaring the marble, others hewing the cedars, there should, be a sort of irrationall men who could not consider there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber, ere the house of God can be built. And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world; neither can every peece of the building be of one form; nay rather the perfection consists in this, that out of many moderat varieties and brotherly dissimilitudes that are not vastly disproportionall arises the goodly and the gracefull symmetry that commends the whole pile and structure.