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47 Was somebody asking to
see the Soul?
See! your own shape and countenance — persons, sub- stances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands. All hold spiritual joys, and afterwards loosen them:
How can the real body ever die, and be buried?
49 Of your real body, and any man's or woman's real body,
Item for item, it will elude the hands of the corpse- cleaners, and pass to fitting spheres,
Carrying what has accrued to it from the moment of
birth to the
moment of death.
50 Not the types set up by the printer return their im- pression, the meaning, the main concern,
Any more than a man's substance and life, or a wo- man's substance and life, return in the body and the Soul,
Indifferently before death and after death.
51 Behold! the body includes and is the meaning, the main concern — and includes and is the Soul;
Whoever you are! how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it.
See! your own shape and countenance — persons, sub- stances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands. All hold spiritual joys, and afterwards loosen them:
How can the real body ever die, and be buried?
49 Of your real body, and any man's or woman's real body,
Item for item, it will elude the hands of the corpse- cleaners, and pass to fitting spheres,
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50 Not the types set up by the printer return their im- pression, the meaning, the main concern,
Any more than a man's substance and life, or a wo- man's substance and life, return in the body and the Soul,
Indifferently before death and after death.
51 Behold! the body includes and is the meaning, the main concern — and includes and is the Soul;
Whoever you are! how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it.
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