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And the flesh being a slave, as Paul testifies, how can one with any reason adorn the handmaid like a pimp? For that which is of flesh has the form of a servant. And the Mediator executes the Father's will for the Mediator is the Word, who is common to both - the Son of God, the Saviour of men His Servant, our Teacher. For the Word Himself is the manifest mystery: God in man, and man God. Heraclitus, then, rightly said, Men are gods, and gods are men. But that man with whom the Word dwells does not alter himself, does not get himself up: he has the form which is of the Word he is made like to God he is beautiful he does not ornament himself: his is beauty, the true beauty, for it is God and that man becomes God, since God so wills.

For lust becomes and fabricates all things, and wishes to cheat, so as to conceal the man. Passions break out, pleasures overflow beauty fades, and falls quicker than the leaf on the ground, when the amorous storms of lust blow on it before the coming of autumn, and is withered by destruction. A man no longer appears like a strong wild beast,Д«ut he became moist water, and a tree of lofty branches. Love of ornament has degenerated to wantonness. While he yet retained the ornament, the hair of the chin showed him to be a man.Д«ut after that a serpent, a pard, or a big sow. And appetite, which is the third department, is many-shaped above Proteus, the varying sea-god, who changed himself now into one shape, now into another and it allures to adulteries, to licentiousness, to seductions. But the irascible part, being brutal, dwells near to insanity. And that one, in another respect, God guides. Since then the soul consists of three divisions the intellect, which is called the reasoning faculty, is the inner man, which is the ruler of this man that is seen. Now, God alone is in need of nothing, and rejoices most when He sees us bright with the ornament of intelligence and then, too, rejoices in him who is arrayed in chastity, the sacred stole of the body. For if one knows himself, he will know God and knowing God, he will be made like God, not by wearing gold or long robes, but by well-doing, and by requiring as few things as possible. It is then, as appears, the greatest of all lessons to know one's self. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more В— all for only $19.99.

#Oter bondage comic the wishing stone full#

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