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People are drawn to communities of similitude.
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ALAM AL-MITHAL: the mystical world of similitudes where all physical limitations are removed.† (source)similitudes = similarities in appearance, character or nature
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In my brain were stored a thousand pictures: Giotto's flock of angels from the blue vaulting of a little church in Padua, and near them walked Hamlet and the garlanded Ophelia, fair similitudes of all sadness and misunderstanding in the world, and there stood Gianozzo, the aeronaut, in his burning balloon and blew a blast on his horn, Attila carrying his new headgear in his hand, and the Borobudur reared its soaring sculpture in the air.† (source)
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12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.† (source)
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I believe fully that I am growing to resemble the devil—that the similitude is almost completed.† (source)
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with a son of invincible spurious humility slept on a pallet on the floor, the child lying there between them unasleep in some hiatus of passive and hopeless despair aware of this, aware of the woman on the bed whose every look and action toward him, whose every touch of the capable hands seemed at the moment of touching his body to lose all warmth and become imbued with cold implacable antipathy, and the woman on the pallet upon whom he had already come to look as might some delicate talonless and fangless wild beast crouched in its cage in some hopeless and desperate similitude of ferocity (and your grandfather said, 'Suffer little children to come unto Me': and what did He mean by that?† (source)
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Having swallowed the butter, they played another game which chanced to be graceful: the fondling of Shri Krishna under the similitude of a child.† (source)
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He wondered it if might be possible that his ruh-spirit had slipped over somehow into the world where the Fremen believed he had his true existence — into the alam al-mithal, the world of similitudes, that metaphysical realm where all physical limitations were removed.† (source)similitudes = similarities in appearance, character or nature
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But they that observe their differences, and dissimilitudes; which is called Distinguishing, and Discerning, and Judging between thing and thing; in case, such discerning be not easie, are said to have a Good Judgement: and particularly in matter of conversation and businesse; wherein, times, places, and persons are to be discerned, this Vertue is called DISCRETION.† (source)dissimilitudes = differences in appearance, character or naturestandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in dissimilitudes reverses the meaning of similitudes. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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But, strangely enough—(I thought of it only afterwards)—I believe that he was not a little disconcerted by the reverse side of that weird situation, by something in me that reminded him of the man he was seeking—suggested a mysterious similitude to the young fellow he had distrusted and disliked from the first.† (source)
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2 The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the day, The simple, compact, well-join'd scheme, myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated yet part of the scheme, The similitudes of the past and those of the future, The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river, The current rushing so swiftly and swimming with me far away, The others that are to follow me, the ties between me and them, The certainty of others, the life, love, sight, hearing of others.† (source)similitudes = similarities in appearance, character or nature
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Let me complete my friend Lucifer's similitude of the classical concert.† (source)
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I assured him, "how extremely desirous I was that he should be satisfied on every point; but I doubted much, whether it would be possible for me to explain myself on several subjects, whereof his honour could have no conception; because I saw nothing in his country to which I could resemble them; that, however, I would do my best, and strive to express myself by similitudes, humbly desiring his assistance when I wanted proper words;" which he was pleased to promise me.† (source)
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Thus, the sperm whale and the humpbacked whale, each has a hump; but there the similitude ceases.† (source)
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Such discourses as these had I with my man, and such made me sensible, that the true God is worshipped, tho' under imperfect similitudes;† (source)
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The Libyan Jew went by, and the Jew of Egypt, and the Jew from the Rhine; in short, Jews from all East countries and all West countries, and all islands within commercial connection; they went by on foot, on horseback, on camels, in litters and chariots, and with an infinite variety of costumes, yet with the same marvellous similitude of features which to-day particularizes the children of Israel, tried as they have been by climates and modes of life; they went by speaking all known tongues, for by that means only were they distinguishable group from group; they went by in haste—eager, anxious, crowding—all to behold one poor Nazarene die, a felon between felons.† (source)
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