“When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.”

Quoted by Marilyn Ferguson in The Aquarian Conspiracy, Chapter 5 (1980)

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Catholic bishop 1651–1715

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