“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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Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.
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