The text discusses the limitations of human understanding and knowledge, suggesting that humans can only partially comprehend truth and nature. It emphasizes the idea of ascending from smaller, tangible things to greater, more abstract concepts, such as moving from creation to Creator. There's a discussion of embracing this perspective rather than adopting Spinoza's view that all human thoughts and actions are merely borrowed from the vast nature of the universe.
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As we understand clearly from the acute triangle, by doubling the numbers, we certainly understand that something can have a hundred thousand angles. Thus, there is little reason to deny or doubt the solely understandable way, as well as the comprehensible way. We therefore conclude that it is only granted to mortality in this life to know partically, and to understand only a small piece of the matter, so that the human spirit may be instructed from the lesser to the greater, which is to ascend from the creation to the Creator, and to end there with his entire desire for knowledge. We gladly embrace this wholesome and comforting feeling, rather than wishing to believe with Spinoza that all our movements, wills, and thoughts are just particular appropriations, dependent on the general chaos or framework of the universe; thus, no one can bring forth greater or lesser, inferior or superior thinking, movement, actions, or works than the small part he makes from the whole mass of Nature; which Nature, by her essence, understands to be a cause of herself.
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