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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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Because those fields persist after decomposition, souls in hell or purgatory can still feel pain and bodily semblance.
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His final picture is two-dimensional: body and soul are combined on earth, but after death the body can vanish while the soul retains bodily semblance in a spiritual mode.
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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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"And we think that the soul, oh, it's a spark in us or it's part of the brain. No, it's actually the body itself,..."
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"Not as much, but there's still some elements to it. That's how your body is. That's how people are able to feel pain, both..."
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"...You don't have a body, but the soul still maintains the semblance of the body. So you still hunger, and you can still starve,..."
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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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"...spirit's follower, since from that airy body it takes on its semblance that soul is called shade. That shape forms organs for each sense..."
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"...The heavens facing her were glittering with gems set in the semblance of the chill animal that assails men with its tail. While night..."
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"...that of a just man. So gracious was his features, outer semblance, and all his trunk, the body of a serpent. He had two..."
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"...was far from Beatrice, but distance was no hindrance, for her semblance reached me undimmed by anything between."
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"...transfix me with amazement so intense, nor show to me a semblance that was so akin to God. And the angelic love, who had..."
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"...bathes at the breast. And not because more than one simple semblance was in the living light at which I gaze, for it is..."
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