"Zanoni", Book 4, Chapter IX, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Chapter IX:

There is a principle of the soul, superior to all nature, through which we are capable of surpassing the order and systems of the world. When the soul is elevated to natures better than itself, THEN it is entirely separated from subordinate natures, exchanges this for another life, and, deserting the order of things with which it was connected, links and mingles itself with another.

Iamblichus.

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I thought I would have a little fun with the voice of Adon-ai. Hopefully it's clear enough.

The picture used is "O Adonai:
O Adonai and Leader of the house of Israel, who appeared to Moses in the fiery glow of the burning bush and gave him the law on Sinai: come to set us free with outstretched arm.
– the Magnificat antiphon for 18 December.

Stained glass window from St Alphonsus church in Windsor, Ontario."

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