Figures
who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle Part of Belief →The ultimate — what this line takes as final
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Le Grand Etre.
Depicted as a woman holding a child, in an unembarrassed borrowing from Catholic iconography. Comte was explicit that the imitation was the point.
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Saints & exemplars — lives held up as the pattern
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Clotilde de Vaux.
Comte knew her for about a year before she died. He then rebuilt his entire system around the primacy of feeling and prayed to her three times a day for the remaining eleven years of his life.
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