The spiritual interests ,if applicable , of contributors has no impact on this understanding anymore than their taste in verse .
Novalis also wrote -
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
;-)
As a scientist he should know .
He was working on “die Wissenschaft der Wissenschaften " trans. "the science of the sciences "before his death . If ever a poet was steeped in science ,even more so than Goethe , it was Novalis .