ABSTRACT
Epistemology then appears to be the theory of human knowledge as knowledge regardless of its concrete execution because only a transgression of the boundaries of human experience is able to establish its conditions. To transcend human knowledge in and of itself coincides with philosophical theology. In a digression during the presentation of the Pythagorean interpretation of quaternal structures that also affect the doctrine of the soul, we learn that Cusanus held contrary to the doctrine of Origen that the soul is prior to the body by nature, not temporally', although a close look into the source shows that the philosopher had meant specifically the mind or intellect. The paradox is that Nicholas of Cusa needs either level, the epistemological and the ontological, in order to explain the incomprehensibility of human understanding of God. Nicholas of Cusa has man transcend his own understanding just by reflecting upon it. Petrus Bungus proves the compatibility of Pythagorean numerology with Christian doctrine.
