The quoted passage says eternal love opens into new loves not to improve itself but to let divine splendor shine back to itself.
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Splendor
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...acquire new goodness for himself, which cannot be, but that his splendor might, as it shines back to him, declare subsisto. In his eternity..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...acquire new goodness for himself, which cannot be, but that his splendor might, as it shines back to him, declare subsisto. In his eternity..."
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"...acquire new goodness for himself, which cannot be, but that his splendor might, as it shines back to him, declare subsisto. In his eternity..."
"...not through vanity or other failing, so did I see that splendor brightening approach those two flames dancing in a ring to music suited..."
"...halted like a candle in its stand and from within the splendor that had spoken to me before i heard him as he smiled..."
"in his order the other for his wisdom had possessed the splendor of cherubic light on earth"
"...the veil upon her heart was never loosed this is the splendor of the great Costanza who from the Swabian second gust engendered the..."
"...be their fair. Such were the far more than a thousand splendors I saw approaching us. And each declared, here now is one who..."
"...the veil upon her heart was never loosed this is the splendor of the great costanza who from the suavians second gossip was the..."
"...place my most precious place all the yarns about Otu the splendor of kingship belong to me second king of the mountain embosses the..."
"...become this throne, O peers, and this imperial sovereignty, adorned with splendor, armed with power, if aught proposed and"
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