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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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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Body Many One Same Soul There
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Another Beauty Being Ignorance Order Ourselves Over Own Posses Self True Ugly
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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Beautiful Beauty Become Did Eyes First Itself never See Soul Sun Unless
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Action Dead Determine Does Knowledge Not Too Us

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