The Soul Is Not The Body And

Beautiful Sights Arouse Feelings Of Love, And Contrary Sights Bring Feelings Of Disgrace And Hate. And The Emotions Of The Soul And Spirit Bring Something Additional To The Body Itself, Which Exists Under The Control Of The Soul And The Direction Of The Spirit.

The Wise Soul Feareth Not Death; Rather She Sometimes Striveth For Death, She Goeth Beyond To Meet Her. Yet Eternity Maintaineth Her Substance Throughout Time, Immensity Throughout Space, Universal Form Throughout Motion.

Our … Reduceth To A Single Origin And Relateth To A Single , And Maketh Contraries To Coincide So That There Is One Primal Foundation Both Of Origin And Of End. From This Coincidence Of Contraries, We Deduce That Ultimately It Is Divinely True That Contraries Are Within Contraries; Wherefore It Is Not Difficult To Compass The Knowledge That Each Thing Is Within Every Other.

Of The Eternal Incorporeal Substance Nothing Is Changed, Is Formed Or Deformed, But There Always Remains Only That Thing Which Cannot Be A Subject Of Dissolution, Since It Is Not Possible That It Be A Subject Of Composition, And Therefore, Either Of Itself Or By Accident, It Cannot Be Said To Die.

My Son, I Do Not Say These Are Foals And Those Asses, These Little Monkeys And Those Great Baboons, As You Would Have Me Do. As I Told You From The First, I Regard Them As Earth's Heroes. But I Do Not Wish To Believe Them Without Cause, Nor To Accept Those Propositions Whose Antitheses (as You Must Have Understood If You Are Not Both Blind And Deaf) Are So Compellingly True.