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.
GIORDANO BRUNOI need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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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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You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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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.
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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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There is no law governing all things.
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When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death.
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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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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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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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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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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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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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All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
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