CIC. Go on then with our proposition.

TANS. The infinite aspiration then, indicated by the sighs and

symbolized by the winds, is not under the dominion of Æolus in the Æolic

caverns, but of the aforementioned two lights, which are not only

blameless, but benevolent in killing the enthusiast, inasmuch as they

cause him to die to every other thing, except the absorbing affection;

at the same time, they, being closed and concealed, render him unquiet,

and being open, they will tranquillize him, because at this time, when

the eyes of the human mind in this body are covered with a nebulous

veil, the soul, through such studies, becomes troubled and harassed, and

he being thus torn and goaded, will attain only that amount of quiet as

will satisfy the condition of his nature.

CIC.. How can our finite intellect follow after the infinite ideal?

TANS. Through the infinite potency it possesses.

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