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I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.

Giordano Bruno

If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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Button Buttoned Coat Crooked First Rest Wrongly
I regard them as earth’s heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.
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Accept Cause Compelling Regard True Understood Wish
For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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All Aspect Change Diminishing Fact Nothing Space Substance Thing Wandering
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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Constellation Countless Give Light Planet Sea Spare Sun
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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Consider Infinite Necessity Now Place Providence Space Universe
He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
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Earth Glorify One Single Thousand World
Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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All Divinity Himself Reveal Thing
Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
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Captive Carry Depth Divine Down Enslave Love Lowest Magnifies Racism Support
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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Exist God People Substance Universal
The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.
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Beyond Death Fearneath Goeth Her Meet Sometimes Soul Striveth Worse
I who am in the night will move into the day.
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Day Move Right
Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
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Being Essence Existence First Last Nothing Presence
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
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All Await Come Less Pass See Sentemnnce Substance Will
The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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Gem Less Philosophy Precious Understand
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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Apprehensible Comprehend Delight Draw Knowable Thing Together
I have held and hold souls to be immortal…. Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell.
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Held Hold Immortal Soul

I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.

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