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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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All From IT Nothing One Precisely Thing Within
The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Dialectic First Instrument Intuition Mean Second Sense Third
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
If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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All Could God Himself If Man Once Se Turn Would
Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beautiful Ignorance Know Ourselves Self Ugly
The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Good Harmonious Knowable World
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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Alone Flight God Godlike Life Love Men Without World
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beast Between God Mankind Midway Poison
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
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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Antiquity Body Darkness Dogma Explate Internal Into New Pass Recognize Region Sin Soul Throughout Trait Undergo
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Before Behold Soul
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Appreciate Faulty Infinite Only Reason Superior Vcan You
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
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Affection Aversion Courage Desire Distress Experience Fear Pleasure Seat These
Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Degree Knowledge Opinion Science Three
In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Absorb Contemplanation Hold Longer Object Question State View

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