Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 99
... beauty , and the cause of beauty . If , however , from too much conversing with material ob- jects , the soul was gross , and misplaced its satisfaction in the body , it reaped nothing but sorrow ; body being unable to ful- fill the ...
... beauty , and the cause of beauty . If , however , from too much conversing with material ob- jects , the soul was gross , and misplaced its satisfaction in the body , it reaped nothing but sorrow ; body being unable to ful- fill the ...
Page 100
... beauty , and separat- ing in each soul that which is divine from the taint which they have contracted in the world , the lover ascends ever to the highest beauty , to the love and knowledge of the Divinity , by steps on this ladder of ...
... beauty , and separat- ing in each soul that which is divine from the taint which they have contracted in the world , the lover ascends ever to the highest beauty , to the love and knowledge of the Divinity , by steps on this ladder of ...
Page 120
... beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified ; these are wise men . The first class have com- mon sense ; the second , taste ; and the third , spiritual percep- tion . Once in a long time a man traverses the whole scale ...
... beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified ; these are wise men . The first class have com- mon sense ; the second , taste ; and the third , spiritual percep- tion . Once in a long time a man traverses the whole scale ...
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