The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world…

Michel de Montaigne
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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