Beatrice's criterion for judging the spheres correctly: interior virtue or power, not visible extension.
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power within
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...most so that if you put draw your measure around the power within and not the semblance of the angels that appear to you..."
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The quoted solution says one must measure the spheres by the power within them rather than by the visible semblance of the angelic circles, and then the correspondence between cosmos and intelligence becomes clear.
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"...most so that if you put draw your measure around the power within and not the semblance of the angels that appear to you..."
"if your fingers are not enough for such a knot it is not wonderful so much so as not to try it is done..."
"...ones who are becoming god is the being and humans are within god which allows for this process to happen do you understand humans..."
"...died first of all he was not allowed to be buried within florence with his ancestors and um he um and they'll see even..."
"well he's definitely made peace because he's within the vine property okay"
"is tell how it has blossomed within your mind and from what source"
"...militant who has more hope than he has as is written within the sun whose rays reach all our ranks thus it is granted..."
"73. May those he says, within his deity, who know your name, put hope in you, and if one has my faith, can he..."
"...halt when rowers hear a whistle. Ah, how disturbed I was within my mind when I turned around to look at Beatrice, unfinding that..."
"...Because the woman who conducts you through this godly region has within her gaze that force the hand of Ananias had."
"...my son the cause of my long exile did not lie within the act of tasting of the tree but solely in my trespass..."
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