[Benedictine monk] Bede [Griffiths] felt that the ultimate significance of the cosmos is a mystical one, in the sense that the universe itself is a vehicle leading the mind to the Divine. His view is much like the medieval Franciscan view of creation as a great book from which we can learn the essentials of being and life. Because of this, science, as well as both Eastern and Western mysticism, is part of the larger synthesis that Bede conceived.
— Wayne Teasdale, The Other Half of My Soul by Beatrice Bruteau, editor