THERE IS NO SHAME IN DEATH @thereisnoshameindeath - Tumblr Blog

"Let us consider an ugly soul, intemperate and unjust. It is full of great number of desires and the most profound anxieties. Fearful out of cowardice, envious out of meanness of spirit, it lives the life of the passions of the body and finds pleasure only in ugliness. Would we not say that ugliness of this soul has come upon it from the outside like an illness that harms it, makes it impure and turns it into a confused tangle of ills? The soul lives a life in the shadow of the impurity of evil, a life contaminated by the germs of death. It is no longer able to see what a soul must see; it can no longer repose within its own being because it is constantly drawn to external things, which are inferior and darker than the night. Impure, overwhelmed on all sides by the attraction of sensible things, it has blended with many characteristics of the body. Since the soul has accepted the form of matter, which is different from it, it has been contaminated by it, and its very nature has been polluted by that which is inferior to it."

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