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but the ability to see the phantasms created by God1 in water and shadows of objects that are
real and not merely, as before, the shadows of images cast through a light
which, compared with the sun, is as unreal as they—all this procedure
of the arts and sciences that we have described indicates their power to lead
the best part of the soul up to the contemplation of what is best among
realities, as in our parable the clearest organ in the body was turned to the
contemplation of what is brightest
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