Knowledge of Angels is a medieval philosophical novel by Jill Paton Walsh which was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize.
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“And, beholding in many souls the traits of the divine beauty, and separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends to the highest beauty, to the love and knowledge of the Divinity, by steps on this ladder of created souls.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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Great be the manners, of the bard.
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“Pass in, pass in,” the angels say,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)