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12. We behold, then, by the sight of the mind, in that eternal
truth from which all things temporal are made, the form according to
which we are, and according to which we do anything by true and right
reason, either in ourselves, or in things corporeal; and we have the
true knowledge of things, thence conceived, as it were as a word
within us, and by speaking we beget it from within; nor by being born
does it depart from us. And when we speak to others, we apply to the
word, remaining within us, the ministry of the voice or of some bodily
sign, that by some kind of sensible remembrance some similar thing may
be wrought also in the mind of him that hears, similar, I say, to
that which does not depart from the mind of him that speaks. We do
nothing, therefore, through the members of the body in our words and
actions, by which the behavior of men is either approved or blamed,
which we do not anticipate by a word uttered within ourselves. For no
one willingly does anything, which he has not first said in his heart.
13. And this word is conceived by love, either of the creature or
of the Creator, that is, either of changeable nature or of
unchangeable truth.
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