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Conjugal Love 145 ... spiritual purification can be compared with the purification of natural spirits practised by chemists, what they call defecation, rectification, castigation, distillation, refining, decantation and sublimation. Purified wisdom can be compared with alcohol, which is the highest degree of rectified spirit. (c) Spiritual wisdom then has the essential quality of growing warmer the more wisdom is loved, …
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