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. - SearchQuotes

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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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