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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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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Become vision itself.
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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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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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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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