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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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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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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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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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And Look Into Withdraw Yourself
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
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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
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
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Around Bad Contemed Drag Enough Image Imprisoned Me Nature
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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Beautiful Creator Find Into Look Made State Withdraw Yet Yourself
In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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