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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

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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.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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