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The peripateticks when they define the soul or some inferior principle describe it only by outward circumstances, which every child can do, but they state nothing essentially.

— Thomas Vaughan Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

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Be ye transmuted from dead stones into living philosophical stones.

Aristotle thrives by scuffles and the world cries him up, when truth cries him down.

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Be pleased to consider, that obstinacy enslaves the Soul, and clips the wings which God gave Her for flight, and discovery.

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They dwell altogether in the face, their endeavors are meer titillations, & their acquaintance with Nature is not at the heart.

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Ignorance gave this release the name of death, but properly it is the soul's birth and a charter that makes for her liberty.

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