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GRETCHEN LUDKE FINNEY
[See also Alchemy; Chain of Being; Demonology; Love;
Macrocosm and Microcosm;
Music as Divine Art; Nature;
Neo-Platonism; Platonism;
Pythagorean Harmony.]
