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Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one."
Juan Donoso Cortés
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He was truly after an art in which the creator could be as intelligent as he liked, but in which intelligence must be transmuted entirely into form, so that no lumps of thinking are left showing.

wilfrid sheed

— "Ernest Hemingway" (1977), p. 240

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Sophie's hard first question to the cards had not, precisely, gone without an answer, it had been transmuted into questions about the question. It had branched and rooted like a tree, growing questions like buds, and then at some moment all the questions had become one question: what tree is this?

john crowley

— Bk. 3, Ch. 4

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For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality.

mircea eliade

— The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion: The Significance of Religious Myth, Symbolism, and Ritual within Life and Culture (1961)

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For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

samuel johnson

— Line 362. (Vanity of Human Wishes (1749))

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The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.

aldo leopold

— “November: A Mighty Fortress”, p. 77

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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

marianne moore

— "Comment" in The Dial No. 86 (April 1929)

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For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

samuel johnson

— Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, line 352.

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