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Page 87
... offers , but that he will accept the role of Adversary which Satan assigns to him - that he will see his choices , even for an instant , in satanic terms . It is not his in- tegrity that Satan hopes to destroy , but his inaccessible ...
... offers , but that he will accept the role of Adversary which Satan assigns to him - that he will see his choices , even for an instant , in satanic terms . It is not his in- tegrity that Satan hopes to destroy , but his inaccessible ...
Page 89
... offers space , whether of food or world , he offers an enclosure to be conquered and supplanted by the self : “ as thy Empire must extend , / So let extend thy mind o'er all the world " ( IV , 222-23 ) . He soon realizes that so narrow ...
... offers space , whether of food or world , he offers an enclosure to be conquered and supplanted by the self : “ as thy Empire must extend , / So let extend thy mind o'er all the world " ( IV , 222-23 ) . He soon realizes that so narrow ...
Page 92
... offer of himself as an object of worship only makes literal and manifest what has been true all along - that he creates his temptations from himself . He offers Christ the whole world , but any world he offers must begin and end in the ...
... offer of himself as an object of worship only makes literal and manifest what has been true all along - that he creates his temptations from himself . He offers Christ the whole world , but any world he offers must begin and end in the ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
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