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Card #c290IR // #c290Verbatim excerpt
But the Father of all things, the Mind being Life and Light, brought forth Man, like unto himself, whom he loved as his proper Birth, for he was all beauteous, having the Image of his Father.

— Source: The Divine Pymander (Hermes Trismegistus (tr. Everard))

[Use when]

Use when human dignity needs a metaphysical warrant, not a social one.

[Why it matters]

Anthropology starts as paternal love of likeness — Man is not an accident of mud.

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