I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe.
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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
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But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end.
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Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
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Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity.
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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark.
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I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
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In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority.
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