Soltes also shows works of art which have rendered Aron, Moses' brother, who functioned for the Jewish people in the capacity of a high priest -- which connotes the sacred and his meeting with the people, who are the profane. In synagogues, the bimah is the pulpit from which the Torah is read, which helps to raise a synagogue with the aron, or holy arch (Soltes)
Panofsky argued that Gothic architecture was based upon "visible and tangible equivalents to the scholastic definitions of the order and form of thought. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae and other great treatises were organized so that the reader is led, step-by-step, from one proposition to the other and is always kept informed as to the progress of this process" (Liukkonen & Pesonen 2008)