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falsehood a mask.
innocence,
malignity.
Fire destroys falsehood,
that is sophistry, and
restores truth, driving out
darkness.
Fire may be represented as the destroy of
all sophistry, and as the
image and demonstration of truth;
because it is light and drives
out darkness which conceals
all essences [or subtle things].
[Footnote: See PI. LXIII. L. 1-8 are in the middle of the page; 1.
9
-14 to the right below; 1. 15-22 below in the middle column. The
rest of the text is below the sketches on the left. There are some
other passages on this page relating to geometry.]
TRUTH.
Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit;
and maintains truth alone, that is gold.
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