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20. There is no wholeness in them whom aught of Thy creation
displeased no more than there was in me, when many things which Thou
madest displeased me. And, because my soul dared not be displeased at
my God, it would not suffer aught to be Thine which displeased it.
Hence it had gone into the opinion of two substances, and resisted
not, but talked foolishly. And, returning thence, it had made to
itself a god, through infinite measures of all space; and imagined it
to be Thee, and placed it in its heart, and again had become the
temple of its own idol, which was to Thee an abomination. But after
Thou hadst fomented the. head of me unconscious of it, and closed
mine eyes test they should "behold vanity," * I ceased from myself
a little, and my madness was lulled to sleep; and I awoke in Thee,
and saw Thee to be infinite, though in another way; and this sight
was not derived from the flesh.
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