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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.

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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
We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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Birthright Close Eyes Invokem Manner Must Our Put See Though Use Wakefulness
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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Become Dormant Dual Longer No Now Present Sense Thing
As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Appear Eye Give Horizon Itself Our Own Rise Sight Sun Time Wait
There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Body Many One Same Soul There
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Action Dead Determine Does Knowledge Not Too Us
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
Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Consent Image Perpetuation Should Why
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Beauty Itself Light Over Play Rather Symmetry Thing
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Another Beauty Being Ignorance Order Ourselves Over Own Posses Self True Ugly
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
Withdraw into yourself and look.
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And Look Into Withdraw Yourself
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 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
Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Each Of One Part Soul Universe Us
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beast Between God Mankind Midway Poison

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