subtilize

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The spiritual comprehension may be infinitely subtilized, but the raw material it operates upon must remain.

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But the men's shoddy is merely a horror, whereas woman transfigures and subtilizes the cheap material.

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The risk in subtilizing stage character lies just here.

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Theosophy—and a large share of what is called theology—is simply a refining and subtilizing of mythology.

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However abstractly they speculate and subtilize, there is always an undigested bone of man-god, god-man, and vicarious atonement in the theological stomach.

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