God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.

As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.

Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.

I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.