Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
GIORDANO BRUNOThose 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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Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and “fashionable”) the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified.
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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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Time takes all and gives all
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Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.
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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.
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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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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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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.
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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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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
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