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The human soul : its movements, its lights, and the iconography of ...

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THE HUMAN SOULvery transformism, under <strong>the</strong> influence <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> Spirit,<strong>the</strong> preservative <strong>and</strong> perpetuativeprovidence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> manifestation, respondingto <strong>human</strong> invocation, when it appealsto <strong>the</strong> Spirit <strong>of</strong> light <strong>its</strong>elf.Divine attraction, aspiration <strong>of</strong> <strong>soul</strong>s,providential transformism<strong>The</strong> Van is <strong>the</strong> sign, <strong>the</strong> manifestation <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> Spirit increate, by which all is transformedinto <strong>the</strong> invisible ; it expresses <strong>the</strong>transsubstantiation, <strong>the</strong> transmutation <strong>of</strong>form <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> matter, by <strong>the</strong> descent <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>quickening Spirit, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Holy Spirit.<strong>The</strong> sign expresses <strong>the</strong> thing ; <strong>the</strong> moreperfect <strong>the</strong> sign is, <strong>the</strong> more perfect is<strong>the</strong> thing.<strong>The</strong> aphorism, ex nihilo nihiL from nothingcomes nothing y is a criterion for positivescience ; it wished only to be judged froma tangible, sensitive <strong>and</strong> especially visualrange <strong>of</strong> experiment ; now, <strong>the</strong> sight <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>eye hardly passes <strong>the</strong> first plane <strong>of</strong> matter.For <strong>the</strong> <strong>human</strong> spirit, which, from visiblethings, penetrates into <strong>the</strong> invisible things— 120 —

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