Noema as a unity of phenomenon and meaning for which in Buddhism there is a misnomer “name-and-form”. Name is a linguistic symbol of a certain meaning, whereas every form is phenomenal (e.g., visual), hence phenomenon-and-meaning.

The body is a noematic self-representation of transcendental subject—freewill and causal structures (“karmic seeds” in Yogācāra Buddhism). Should you begin to see this truth, you’ll begin to read the body as a “hieroglyph” of the soul. Just open your eyes and you’ll read many beautiful and scary tales.

“[W]e can see in the human face what correspondence is like. In a face that has not been taught to dissimulate, all the affections of the mind manifest themselves visibly in a natural form, as though in their very imprint, which is why we refer to the face as ‘‘the index of the mind.’’ This is our spiritual world within our natural world.” — Emanuel Swedenborg