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Book XII.
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Commencing with a distinction between wisdom and knowledge, points out a kind of trinity, of a peculiar sort, in that which is properly called knowledge, and which is the lower of the two; and this trinity, although it certainly pertains to the inner man, is still not yet to be called or thought an image of God.
iv.i.xiv.i
Man Alone of Animate Creatures Perceives the Eternal Reasons of Things Pertaining to the Body.iv.i.xiv.ii
The Higher Reason Which Belongs to Contemplation, and the Lower Which Belongs to Action, are in One Mind.iv.i.xiv.iii
The Trinity and the Image of God is in that Part of the Mind Alone Which Belongs to the Contemplation of Eternal Things.iv.i.xiv.iv
The Opinion Which Devises an Image of the Trinity in the Marriage of Male and Female, and in Their Offspring.iv.i.xiv.v
Why This Opinion is to Be Rejected.iv.i.xiv.vi
How Man is the Image of God. Whether the Woman is Not Also the Image of God. How the Saying of the Apostle, that the Man is the Image of God, But the Woman is the Glory of the Man, is to Be Understood Figuratively and Mystically.iv.i.xiv.vii
Turning Aside from the Image of God.iv.i.xiv.viii
The Same Argument is Continued.iv.i.xiv.ix
The Lowest Degradation Reached by Degrees.iv.i.xiv.x
The Image of the Beast in Man.iv.i.xiv.xi
There is a Kind of Hidden Wedlock in the Inner Man. Unlawful Pleasures of the Thoughts.iv.i.xiv.xii
The Opinion of Those Who Have Thought that the Mind Was Signified by the Man, the Bodily Sense by the Woman.iv.i.xiv.xiii
What is the Difference Between Wisdom and Knowledge. The Worship of God is the Love of Him. How the Intellectual Cognizance of Eternal Things Comes to Pass Through Wisdom.iv.i.xiv.xiv
In Opposition to the Reminiscence of Plato and Pythagoras. Pythagoras the Samian. Of the Difference Between Wisdom and Knowledge, and of Seeking the Trinity in the Knowledge of Temporal Things.iv.i.xiv.xv