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The merely visible appearance of the angelic circles, which Beatrice says is the wrong scale for understanding their true order.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...put draw your measure around the power within and not the semblance of the angels that appear to you as circles you will discern..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...put draw your measure around the power within and not the semblance of the angels that appear to you as circles you will discern..."
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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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"...put draw your measure around the power within and not the semblance of the angels that appear to you as circles you will discern..."
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"if your fingers are not enough for such a knot it is not wonderful so much so as not to try it is done..."
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"...returning after dwelling here with us. My sight was following their semblances, until the space between us grew so great as to deny my..."
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"...so keep on going and i to her within your wonderful semblance there's something"
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"and i to her within your wonderful semblance there's something divine that glows transforming the appearance you once showed therefore by recognizing you as..."
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"...saw. So he's frustrated. And not because more than one simple semblance was in living light at which I gaze,"
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"...where they're very pro -America and Americanized. Do you see any semblance of truth in the rapprochement with Russia? Or do you think it..."
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"...center can be challenged, and as a result, you give a semblance of national unity. But the problem with this, as we know, is..."
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"...that experience. All right? And not because more than one simple semblance was in the living light at which I gaze for it is..."
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