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see above all great and holy Rome, the eternal city, a fundamental and inseparable part of the
universal Church. I believe in this Rome, I venerate it, adore it with all my
heart, and with all the powers of my soul desire its regeneration for the sake of the
unity and wholeness of the universal church; let me be cursed as a patricide if
ever I cast a word of condemnation at the sanctity of Rome.
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The true subject of moral progress
-- as well as of historical progress in general -- is
the individual man together and inseparably from collective man or society.
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As the realisation of the divine principle, its image and
likeness, archetypal humanity, or World Soul, is both one
and all. World Soul occupies a mediating position between
the multiplicity of living entities [ ... ] and the absolute
unity of Divinity.
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Sophia-World Soul is the cornerstone of Solov'ev's work as
a whole, which he, however, left for the most part concealed. The role
of visible cornerstone is performed by the metaphysical principle of
all-unity [vseedinstvo], which applies to all things and beings, and by
the theological principle of the humanity of God [Bogocelovecestvo],
which applies only to human beings.
-- History, Sophia and the Russian Nation, by Manon de
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