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Page 36
... tion , the sun of intelligence and love . Created spirits in the accomplishment of their destinies tend , so to speak , to form constellations and milky ways within the empyrean of the divinity ; in becoming gods , they surround the ...
... tion , the sun of intelligence and love . Created spirits in the accomplishment of their destinies tend , so to speak , to form constellations and milky ways within the empyrean of the divinity ; in becoming gods , they surround the ...
Page 169
... tion . And supposing that there were no good and holy God , nothing but universal being , the law of the all , an ideal without hypostasis or reality , duty would still be the key of the enigma , the pole - star of a wandering humanity ...
... tion . And supposing that there were no good and holy God , nothing but universal being , the law of the all , an ideal without hypostasis or reality , duty would still be the key of the enigma , the pole - star of a wandering humanity ...
Page 208
... tion that we have to aim at . Personal consciousness being the root of all our troubles , we ought to avoid the tempta- tion to it and the possibility of it as diabolical and abomi- nable . What blasphemy ! And yet it is all logical ...
... tion that we have to aim at . Personal consciousness being the root of all our troubles , we ought to avoid the tempta- tion to it and the possibility of it as diabolical and abomi- nable . What blasphemy ! And yet it is all logical ...
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