"Religion is not religion until it has become, not only natural, but so natural that nothing else seems natural in its presence."

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“Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.”

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“Woman is the sum and complex of all nature, and is the visible glory of God. The "Word made Flesh" is the word made Woman.”

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