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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.

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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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And Look Into Withdraw Yourself
A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Antiquity Body Darkness Dogma Explate Internal Into New Pass Recognize Region Sin Soul Throughout Trait Undergo
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Action Dead Determine Does Knowledge Not Too Us
From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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Body Experience Feel Himself Instrument Must Share Soul Took Work
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Before Behold Soul
Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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Aster Divine Enthroned Glory Holy never Seat Sel Shine Statue Stop Until Virtue Work
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Address Beauty Chiefly Hearing Itself Slight Too
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Beauty Because Being Desirable Identical Love
It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Being Unity Virtue
The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Away Beautiful Cut Here Lighter Line Make Other Pure Sculptor Shem Shown Smoothies Status Upon
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Another Beauty Being Order Our Ourselves Over Own Possess True Ugliness W
Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beautiful Ignorance Know Ourselves Self Ugly
In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Absorb Contemplanation Hold Longer Object Question State View
Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Each Of One Part Soul Universe Us
Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Consent Image Perpetuation Should Why
Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Become Before Exist Had Here Men Now Other Our Pure Soul We

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