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The Banquet (Il Convito)

CHAPTER VI
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Again, if the whole of this Heaven moves and turns with the Epicycle from East to West once in each natural day, that movement, whether it be caused by some Intelligence or whether it be through the rapid movement of the Primum Mobile, God knows, for to me it seems presumptuous to judge.

These Movers produce, caring for that alone, the revolution proper to that sphere which each one moves.

The most noble form of the Heaven, which has in itself the principle of this passive Nature, revolves, touched by the Moving Power, which cares for this; and I say touched, not by a bodily touch, but by a Power which directs itself to that operation.

And these Movers are those to whom I begin to speak and to whom I put my inquiry..


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