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    The physical world is necessary for humans to make physic... — Carmelics
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    The physical world is necessary for humans to make physical beauty spiritual in the intellect

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    • 1.The physical world is the offspring of God's love for wisdom
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    • 2.Corporeal beauty is the primogeniture of God's love for His female consort, wisdom
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    • 3.One must orientate oneself towards sensible beauty in order to reverse the ontological chain
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    • 1.Plotinus argues that the intellect can ascend directly to the One through introspective withdrawal from sensible particulars, bypassing material beauty entirely.
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    • 2.If the soul already contains the Forms as its native content, sensible beauty is a distraction from, not a necessary path to, intellectual beauty.
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    • 1.Maimonides holds that the intellect's perfection is achieved through negation of material attributes, making physical engagement an obstacle rather than a prerequisite.
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    • 2.If God's wisdom is radically incorporeal, the ontological chain cannot be 'reversed' through corporeal orientation without category confusion between matter and form.
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    Judah subsequently uses the latter model, combined with kabbalistic embellishment, to interpret the first creation account in Genesis, where the physical world is now described as the offspring between God, the male principle, and intelligible beauty, now personified as a female.[29] Corporeal beauty, according to this model, becomes the primogeniture of God’s love for His female consort, wisdom. Since this physical world is intimately connected to God, it cannot be negated. Rather, this world
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