THE HIGHER FORMS OF THE VIRTUES.

In this higher realm, justice consists in directing the action of the

soul towards intelligence; temperance is the intimate conversion of

the soul towards intelligence; courage is the (suggestive fascination)

or impassibility, by which the soul becomes similar to that which it

contemplates; since it is natural for intelligence to be impassible.

Now the soul derives this impassibility from the virtue which hinders

her from sharing the passions of the lower principle with which she is

associated.

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