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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"...acquire new goodness for himself, which cannot be, but that his splendor might, as it shines back to him, declare subsisto. In his eternity..."
"...my hands above my brow to limit some of that excessive splendor as when a ray of light from water or mirror leaps in..."
"...he raised his finger. When you shall stand before the gentle splendor of one whose gracious eyes see everything, then you shall learn from..."
"...the other he had the light apportioned equally similarly for worldly splendors he ordained a general minister and guide to shift from time to..."
"...between the candid rose and light above, obstruct the sight or splendor, because the light of God so penetrates the universe according to the..."
"...as at morning the eastern side of the horizon shows more splendor than the side"
"...i implored to serve at her command her eyes surpassed the splendor of the stars and she began to speak to me so gently..."
"...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"
"...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..."
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