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... Platonic doctrine bore the same interpretation . The demiurge created the universe after the divine idea ; hence the universe was good : but , as it was but a copy , it was removed from the idea and was thereby corrupted from perfection ...
... Platonic doctrine bore the same interpretation . The demiurge created the universe after the divine idea ; hence the universe was good : but , as it was but a copy , it was removed from the idea and was thereby corrupted from perfection ...
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... Platonic Good and of the Garden of Eden , while Adam's fall from it is also the measure of the distance separating created things from their Platonic archetypes . It was then through an intense realisation of this double vision that the ...
... Platonic Good and of the Garden of Eden , while Adam's fall from it is also the measure of the distance separating created things from their Platonic archetypes . It was then through an intense realisation of this double vision that the ...
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... Platonic ideas into the order of heaven is a measure of the queerness of the Eliza- bethan age . Another powerful and persistent piece of Platonism has to do with the angels who were supposed to direct the THE LINKS IN THE CHAIN 43.
... Platonic ideas into the order of heaven is a measure of the queerness of the Eliza- bethan age . Another powerful and persistent piece of Platonism has to do with the angels who were supposed to direct the THE LINKS IN THE CHAIN 43.
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