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Secrets of the Art
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8. most delightful
Eight: This
Art is most delightful
Whereas all
natural objects are delightful to their natural power, so
truth, which is the natural object of the intellect, and
goodness, which is the natural object of the will, and
the duration of both which is an object of memory, are
delightful: and the more these three powers surpass the
lower powers in nobility and perfection, the more the
delight of the former surpasses the delight of the
latter: and as my Art and Science dispose the said three
powers to rise aloft through the influence of the Supreme
Object and to be perfected both extensively and
intensively beyond number and measure in their
operations, my Son, who can estimate the delight of a
fortunate soul enjoying its most delightful object with
the help of my Art?
"If you
are moved to learn this Art because you find it useful,
first be prepared to receive A. and to love this camera
and every one of its parts more than anything else, and
to subordinate everything else to it; for no one who
delights in anything contrary to it can ever attain it,
but only those who are betrothed to it in heart and soul;
and if you come across anything contrary to it, you must
repel it like venom, always keeping in mind that you have
chosen the Art in preference to everything else."
(Doctor Illum. in Introd. Art. Dem. cap. 1. n. 4. f. 3.)
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