Thursday, April 14, 2011



For, as we are taught by those quotations which we adduced from the prophets, there was once a time when he was good, when he walked in the paradise of God between the cherubim. As he, then, possessed the power either of receiving good or evil, but fell away from a virtuous course, and turned to evil with all the powers of his mind, so also other creatures, as having a capacity for either condition, in the exercise of the freedom of their will, flee from evil, and cleave to good. There is no nature, then, which may not admit of good or evil, except the nature of God— the fountain of all good things— and of Christ; for it is wisdom, and wisdom assuredly cannot admit folly; and it is righteousness, and righteousness will never certainly admit of unrighteousness; and it is the Word, or Reason, which certainly cannot be made irrational; nay, it is also the light, and it is certain that the darkness does not receive the light.(Book I, Chapter 8, Part 3)

I was created for - and by - wisdom, righteousness, and reason.

So were you. So was Satan.

We have the power to cleave to good or flee from evil.

We also have the power to choose the reverse.

How we choose will usually determine what we choose:

What is our motivation? Fear or hope, cynicism or faith, hate or love?

May we choose the light.

The image is Ancient of Days by William Blake

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