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.
PLOTINUSAnd this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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