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There is no law governing all things.

Giordano Bruno

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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Being Capacity Dignity Enhold Everything Himself Smallest
My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first,
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Asset Do Foal Great Little Money Son
Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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Faith Magician Mean More Physician Truth
The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
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Apprehend Body Entire Power Present Some Soul Substance Universe Way
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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Declare Earth Exist Infinite World
Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.
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All Animal Effect God Living Nature Other Plant Than Thing
Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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Bridal Desire Me Urge While
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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Greater Perchance Pronounce Recieve Sentence
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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All Being Essence Nothing Over Particular Understand
Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.
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Differently Divinity Glow Go Knew Latent Men Nature Subject Success Thing Work
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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Arouse Beautiful Contrary Disgrace Feeling Hate Love Sight
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
The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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Cadence Hammer Iron More Must Swung
There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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Around Circle Eath Numberless Sun
It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.
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Death Dith Enchant Ever Happy Poverty Power Quick Rih Sorrow Unity
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

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