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“The Intelligible World within the Divine Mind Compared to a Blueprint within the Architect’s Mind
For God, being God, judged in advance that a beautiful copy would never be produced except from a beautiful pattern and that no sense object would be irreproachable that was not modeled after an archetypal and intelligible idea. So when he willed to create this visible world, he first formed the intelligible world, so that he might employ a pattern completely Godlike and incorporeal for the production of the corporeal world, a more recent image of one that was older, which was to comprise as many sensible kinds as there were intelligible ones in the other.”
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For God, being God, judged in advance that a beautiful copy would never be produced except from a beautiful pattern and that no sense object would be irreproachable that was not modeled after an archetypal and intelligible idea. So when he willed to create this visible world, he first formed the intelligible world, so that he might employ a pattern completely Godlike and incorporeal for the production of the corporeal world, a more recent image of one that was older, which was to comprise as many sensible kinds as there were intelligible ones in the other.”
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“There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.”
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“Error is the price we pay for progress.”
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“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”
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“But God, the ruler of the universe, takes his stand upon it, regulating it and directing everything in a saving manner by the helm of his wisdom, using, in truth, neither hands nor feet, nor any other part whatever such as belongs to created objects.”
― Volume IV: On the Confusion of Tongues. On the Migration of Abraham. Who is the Heir of Divine Things. On Mating with the Preliminary Studies.
― Volume IV: On the Confusion of Tongues. On the Migration of Abraham. Who is the Heir of Divine Things. On Mating with the Preliminary Studies.
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