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Bergamot, Bitter Orange, Black Pepper, Carnation Absolute, Castoreum Absolute, Cistus, Clary Sage, Cold Pressed Lemon, Coriander, Deer Musk, Fir Balsam Absolute, Guiacwood, Honey Absolute, Iris Paladia, Juniper Berry, Lavender Absolute, Patchouli Heart, Petitgrain, Port Oxford Cedar, Spearmint, Styrax Absolute, White Ambergris

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In the beginning was the Word,a and the Word was with God, and the Word was {what} God {was}. This one was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him, nothing came into being that has come into being. In him was life, life that was the light of mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. John came as a witness, to bear witness to the light, so that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but [he was sent] to bear witness to the light. The true light who enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
- St. John the Evangelist, The Holy Gospel According to St. John

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Aldehydes, Bergamot, Cedarwood Virginia, Clary Sage, Golden Ambergris, Jasmine Grandiflorum, Melon, Pink Peppercorn, Seaweed Absolute

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In the midst of being as a whole an open place occurs. There is a clearing, a lighting. Thought of in reference to what is, to beings, this clearing is in a greater degree than are beings. This open center is therefore not surrounded by what is; rather, the lighting center itself encircles all that is, like the Nothing which we scarcely know. That which is can only be, as a being, if it stands within and stands out within what is lighted in this clearing. Only this clearing grants and guarantees to us humans a passage to those beings that we ourselves are not, and access to the being that we ourselves are.
- Martin Heidegger, On the Origin of the Work of Art

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Cedarwood Virginia, Civet Absolute, Deer Musk, Frankincense, Geranium Bourbon, Indian Sandalwood, Jasmin Grandiflorum, Orris Butter, Patchouli Absolute, Rose de Mai, Tonka Absolute, Vanilla Absolute, Vetiver Double Distilled, White Ambergris

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And when we have the whole, a form of such a kind in this flesh and in these bones, this is Callias or Socrates; and they are different in virtue of their matter (for that is different), but the same in form, for their form is indivisible.
- Aristotle, Metaphysics

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Ambrette Seed, Bergamot, Cold Pressed Lemon, Eucalyptus, Ginger, Japanese Cedarwood, Labdanum Absolute, Lavender Absolute, Mysore Sandalwood, Oakmoss Absolute, Orris Butter, Patchouli Heart, Tonka Bean Absolute, Vanilla Absolute, Vetiver, White Ambergris

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Thus, once again asking ourselves what the Pillar and Ground of the Truth is, we mentally run through the series of answers given here. The Pillar of the Truth is the Church; it is certitude; it is the spiritual law of identity; it is ascesis; it is the Trihypostatic Unity; it is the Light of Tabor; it is the Holy Spirit; it is chastity or spiritual integrity; it is Sophia; it is the Most Pure Virgin; it is friendship; it is, once more, the Church.
-Pavel Florensky, The Pillar and Ground of the Truth

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Bergamot, Citrus, Cucumber, Fern, Aldehydes, Galbanum, Green Mandarin, Iris, Jasmine Grandiflorum, Leather, Lemon, Lily of the Valley, Linden Blossom, Deer Musk, Nutmeg, Oakmoss, Patchouli, Rose Absolute, Sandalwood, Suede, Tobacco Absolute, Vanilla, Vetiver, Golden Ambergris

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Assume that I experience a sensation S, and that, increasing the stimulus continuously, I perceive this increase after a certain time. I am now notified of the increase of the cause: but why should I call this notification an arithmetical difference? No doubt the notification consists in the fact that the original state S has changed: it has become S′; but the transition from S to S′ could only be called an arithmetical difference if I were conscious, so to speak, of an interval between S and S′, and if my sensation were felt to rise from S to S′ by the addition of something.

By giving this transition a name, by calling it ΔS, you make it first a reality and then a quantity. Now, not only are you unable to explain in what sense this transition is a quantity, but reflection will show you that it is not even a reality; the only realities are the states S and S′ through which I pass. No doubt, if S and S′ were numbers, I could assert the reality of the difference S′ − S even though S and S′ alone were given; the reason is that the number S′ − S, which is a certain sum of units, will then represent just the successive moments of the addition by which we pass from S to S′.

But if S and S′ are simple states, in what will the interval which separates them consist? And what, then, can the transition from the first state to the second be, if not a mere act of your thought, which, arbitrarily and for the sake of the argument, assimilates a succession of two states to a differentiation of two magnitudes?
- Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will

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Ambrette Seed, Benzoin Resin, Cardamom, Cedarwood Atlas, Cinnamon, Deer Musk, Grapefruit, Grape, Iris Paladia, Jasmine Absolute, Mysore Sandalwood, Narcissus Absolute, Orris Butter, Peach, Pineapple, Port Oxford Cedar, Red Apple, Rose Absolute, Rum, White Ambergris

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Beneath the surface of things, beyond all diversity and multiplicity, is a deeper order out of which the phenomenal world unfolds. Created beings, in terms of their underlying nature, are not stationary but are in motion toward their natural goal, which is also a return to their origin and cause, namely God the Logos, who from eternity contains within Himself the “principles” (logoi) of beings, the metaphysical foundations of the universe.

On the basis of these principles, the Logos brings beings into actual existence by creating them out of nothing and providing each with a fixed nature and purpose. Through this creative act of self-giving and self-distribution, the one Logos—who is beyond all being and thought—is multiplied and made known in all beings, which are like a field of manifestations emerging from and returning to the continuous background of God.
-St. Maximus the Confessor, The Ambigua Vol 1

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Ambrette Seed, Carnation Absolute, Cassia, Castoreum Absolute, Chinese Agarwood, Cistus, Civet Absolute, Clove Bud, Deer Musk, Grapefruit, Hinoki, Labdanum Absolute, Mysore Sandalwood, Neroli, Oregano, Prune, Rosewood, Star Anise, Tobacco Absolute, Ylang Ylang Extra

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The general thesis, by the virtue of which the real surrounding world is not just given in consciousness continuously by general apprehension, but is given and familiar as factually existing “actuality” , naturally does not consist of a particular act, of an articulated judgment about existence. It is, after all, something during the whole length of the attitude, i.e. [something] continuously permanent during the natural waking life [directed at the world]. That which at any time is perceived, clearly or obscurely made present—in short, everything from the natural world which is experientially familiar and familiar before any thinking— bears … the characteristic “there,” “at hand”, a characteristic which essentially can ground an expressed (predicative) judgment about existence that is in agreement with this character.
-Edmund Husserl, Ideas for a Pure Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy

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Amyris Wood, Bergamot, Benzoin, Carrot Seed, Cedarwood Virginia, Chamomile, Coumarin, Cypress Leaf, Fir Balsam, Hojari Frankincense, Geranium Bourbon, Grapefruit, Guaiacwood, Labdanum Absolute, Lime, Oakmoss, Deer Musk, Myrrh, Orris Butter, Rose Absolute, Rosemary, Vanilla Absolute

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For though the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father, yet this is not generative in character but processional. This is a different mode of existence, alike incomprehensible and unknown, just as is the generation of the Son. Wherefore all the qualities the Father has are the Son's, save that the Father is unbegotten , and this exception involves no difference in essence nor dignity , but only a different mode of coming into existence. We have an analogy in Adam, who was not begotten (for God Himself moulded him), and Seth, who was begotten (for he is Adam's son), and Eve, who proceeded out of Adam's rib (for she was not begotten). These do not differ from each other in nature, for they are human beings: but they differ in the mode of coming into existence.

For one must recognize that the word ἀγένητον with only one 'ν ' signifies uncreated or not having been made, while ἀγέννητον written with double 'ν ' means unbegotten. According to the first significance essence differs from essence: for one essence is uncreated, or ἀγένητον with one 'ν,' and another is create or γενητή . But in the second significance there is no difference between essence and essence. For the first subsistence of all kinds of living creatures is ἀγέννητος but not ἀγένητος . For they were created by the Creator, being brought into being by His Word, but they were not begotten, for there was no pre-existing form like themselves from which they might have been born.

So then in the first sense of the word the three absolutely divine subsistences of the Holy Godhead agree : for they exist as one in essence and uncreated. But with the second signification it is quite otherwise. For the Father alone is ingenerate , no other subsistence having given Him being. And the Son alone is generate, for He was begotten of the Father's essence without beginning and without time. And only the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father's essence, not having been generated but simply proceeding. John 15:26 For this is the doctrine of Holy Scripture. But the nature of the generation and the procession is quite beyond comprehension.

- St. John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith

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Aldehyde, Ambrette seed absolute, Bergamot, Black Spruce, Black tea absolute, Port Oxford Cedarwood, Civet Absolute, Clary Sage, Deer Musk, Hay Absolute, Heliotrope, Jasmine absolute, Labdanum, Lavender, Lily of the valley, Mate absolute, Mimosa Absolute, Narcissus, Neroli oil, Oakmoss, Orange flower absolute, Patchouli, Petitgrain, Pine needle, Pine tar, Sage, Sandalwood, Tobacco, Tonka bean, Vanilla, Vetiver

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“For, ‘The heart of them that seek the Lord shall rejoice.’ ‘Seek ye the Lord,’ ye condemned, and ‘be strengthened’ with hope; ‘seek His face’ (Psalms 104:3–4) through repentance, and sanctify yourselves by the holiness of His face, and you will be thoroughly purged from your sins.

Run to the Lord, all you that are guilty of sin, to Him that has the power to pardon sins and overlook transgressions. For He has spoken to His Prophet an oath, saying, ‘As I live, saith the Lord, I wish not the death of a sinner, but that he return and live’ (Ezekiel 33:11). And again, ‘I have spread out My hands all the day unto a rebellious and gainsaying people’ (Isaiah 65:2). And again, ‘Wherefore do ye die the death, O house of Israel?’ (cf. Ezekiel 33:11). And again, ‘Return to Me, and I will return unto you’ (Malachi 3:7).

And again: ‘In what day soever the sinner shall return from his way and return unto the Lord, and execute judgment and righteousness, I will not remember his iniquities; but living he shall live, saith the Lord. And if the righteous shall forsake his righteousness, and if sinning he do wrong, I will not remember his righteousness, but it will lay a stumbling-block before him; and he shall die in the darkness of his works, because he abode in them’ (Ezekiel 33:14–15).

Why so? Because the sinner will not stumble over his sin when he returns to the Lord. And the righteousness of the just will not redeem him when he sins, if he persists in such sinning.

But God spoke this also to Jeremias: ‘Take thee a parchment, and write all things that I have spoken unto thee from the days of Josias the king of Judah unto this day, all the evil things that I spake unto thee, saying that I would bring them upon this people: that when he hath heard it and been afraid, a man might forsake his wicked way; and returning they may repent, and I may take away their sins’ (cf. Jeremiah 36:2–3).

And Wisdom has said: ‘He that covereth his sin shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth his sins and leaveth them shall obtain mercy from God’ (Proverbs 28:13).

And Esaias says: ‘Seek ye the Lord, and when you have found Him, call upon Him: and when He shall draw nigh, let the sinner forsake his privy way, and the man of iniquity his thoughts, and return unto Me, and I will have mercy upon you. For My thoughts are not as your thoughts, neither are My ways as your ways’ (Isaiah 55:6–9).

‘If then ye hear Me, ye shall eat the good of the land’ (Isaiah 1:19). Come unto Me and obey Me, and with your soul ye shall live. Whenever you keep the ways of the Lord and do His will, then put your hope in the Lord and call on Him; and ‘as soon as you cry out, He will say to you: “Behold, I am here!”’ (Isaiah 58:9).

-St. Isaac, Homilies

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Castoreum absolute, Golden Ambergris, Ambrette Seed, Choya Raal, Choya Nakh, Choya Loban , Civet Tincture, Costus, Deer Musk, Hyraceum Absolute

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And what am I to say about those two brethren who lived beyond the desert of the Thebaid, where the blessed Antony once lived? Impelled by a thought the real nature of which they could not discern, they decided to go into the vast, uncultivated inner desert; and they even made up their minds to refuse food offered them by man, and to accept only what the Lord would give them in a miraculous fashion. Finally they were seen in the distance wandering about the desert, weak with hunger, by the Mazikes who, though fiercer and wilder than almost all other savage peoples, now providentially exchanged their natural wildness for humane feelings and went to meet them carrying loaves of bread. One of the two brethren accepted the bread with joy and thanksgiving, since his power of discrimination had returned and he realized that such wild and fierce men, who normally rejoice at the sight of blood, would not have felt sympathy with them in their exhaustion and brought them food if God had not moved them to it. The other, however, refused the food on the grounds that it was offered him by men and, persisting in his undiscriminating judgment, he died from the weakness brought on by his hunger.
- St. John Cassian, On the Holy Fathers of Sketis and on Discrimination

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