A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
PLOTINUSThere is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Become vision itself.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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