You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
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You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.
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We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.
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As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.
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