"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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"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; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls."
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"Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object."
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"Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending."
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"Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing."
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"It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings."
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