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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Beauty Because Being Desirable Identical Love
Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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Breathe Coordinate Depend Each Event Everything Full Other Sign Thing Together World
Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Become Before Exist Had Here Men Now Other Our Pure Soul We
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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Daughter Father God Long Love Nature Noble One Soul
It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Being Unity Virtue
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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Body Experience Feel Himself Instrument Must Share Soul Took Work
When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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Depend Head Ignore Inward Look Many On One Outside Outward Until Wel When
The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Away Beautiful Cut Here Lighter Line Make Other Pure Sculptor Shem Shown Smoothies Status Upon
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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Another Birth Come Courtship Fall Father Human Leave Love Lure Mortal Sphere Take
I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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All Back Divine Give Myself Strive
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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Above All Beautiful Beauty Cadence Combination Conduct Higher Kind Life Melodies Mind Sense The Themselves Word
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Beauty Because Being Desirable Identical Love
Withdraw into yourself and look.
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And Look Into Withdraw Yourself
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Before Behold Soul
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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All Complex Creature Froma Must Make One Our Principle Single Universe
Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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Entire Fence Incound Integral Intelligence One Reality Sound Voice

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