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

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.SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEas <strong>of</strong>fering a wider scale in <strong>the</strong> domain <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> luminous.Now what does <strong>the</strong> plate do ?It records not only solar light,but also<strong>the</strong> <strong>lights</strong>, to which we must refer, <strong>and</strong>which we shall classify under visible light,invisible light, iconographable <strong>lights</strong>.Besides <strong>the</strong> visible physical light, if itmay be thus expressed, <strong>the</strong>re is a light,considered up to <strong>the</strong> present as metaphysical,but which ceases to be so, since fromsubjective it may become objective <strong>and</strong>iconographable<strong>The</strong> plate noAV records what <strong>the</strong> spiritalone conceived <strong>and</strong> affirmed.Hence it must be concluded that it is nolonger permissible to believe only vs^hatone sees,seen <strong>and</strong> yet exist :since things exist, which are notlastly, on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r h<strong>and</strong>,one cannot deny that what is, althoughinvisible, is not luminous, since <strong>the</strong> plate, asensitive st<strong>and</strong>ard, reveals it.<strong>The</strong> existence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> visibleinvisible is<strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><strong>the</strong>refore linked with luminousphenomena, visible or invisible for <strong>the</strong> eye.-73 -

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