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me I was freed from my first perplexity, within a new one I became the more enmeshed; and I said, “I was already content concerning one great wonder; but now I marvel how it can be that I should pass through these light bodies.” Whereupon, after a pitying sigh, she turned her eyes on me with the look that a mother casts on her delirious child. And she began, “All things have order among themselves, and this is the form that makes the universe like God.8 Herein the high creatures behold the imprint
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