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250 - Where Is Heaven? A Response To Sam Harris

The Symbolic World

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Is God a Big, Physical Being in the Sky?

Beatrice is warning him not to fall into that trap. She links exactly the ancient philos pal categories, like the ancient aristotelian separation between act and potential, with heaven and earth. At the top is pure act, and at the bottom, earth is pure potentiality. And in the middle, of course, she's talking about the incarnation as the place in which man as the one that gathers the visible into him, but also gathers the in able. So it says, the world this is constructedin these essences, in these meanings, these purposes,. These these patterns that encompass more and more of the good.

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