work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3416,Mind's Eye,Reading,2011-01-13 05:39:14 UTC,"5. For this triple vision, man was endowed with a triple eye, as explained by Hugh of St. Victor: the eye of flesh, of reason, and of contemplation; the eye of flesh, to see the world and what it contains; the eye of reason, to see the soul and what it contains; the eye of contemplation, to see God and that which is within Him. Through the eye of the flesh, man was to see the things outside him; with the eye of reason, the things within him; with the eye of contemplation, the things above him. Now, the eye of contemplation cannot see with perfect clearness, except through glory, which man may lose through sin, but restore through grace, faith, and the study of Scripture. By these means, the human soul is cleansed, enlightened, and perfected for the contemplation of heavenly things, unto which fallen man cannot reach unless he first admits his insufficiency and blindness; and this he cannot do unless he remembers the downfall of human nature.
(II.12.5)
",,18101,"","""For this triple vision, man was endowed with a triple eye, as explained by Hugh of St. Victor: the eye of flesh, of reason, and of contemplation; the eye of flesh, to see the world and what it contains; the eye of reason, to see the soul and what it contains; the eye of contemplation, to see God and that which is within Him.""","",2011-01-13 05:39:14 UTC,"Part II, Chapter 12"
3416,"",Reading,2011-01-13 05:41:20 UTC,"1. This is how original sin is transmitted. The soul itself is not handed down, but original sin did pass from the soul of Adam into the souls of his descendants through the flesh born of concupiscence. As Adam's flesh had been tainted by his sinful soul, becoming prone to lust, so the flesh seeded with lust and carrying in itself a virulent infection, taints and vitiates the soul. This infection in the soul is not only a punishment, but also a sin. Hence the spiritual element corrupts the physical, and corrupted physical nature in turn corrupts the spiritual, while leaving in all things the justice of God unimpaired; for although God infuses a soul as He creates it, and, through this infusion, attaches it to infected flesh, He yet can never be blamed for the soul's infection.
(III.6.1)",,18102,"","""As Adam's flesh had been tainted by his sinful soul, becoming prone to lust, so the flesh seeded with lust and carrying in itself a virulent infection, taints and vitiates the soul.""","",2011-01-13 05:41:20 UTC,III.6.1
3416,"",Reading,2011-01-13 05:43:47 UTC,"2. This should be understood as follows. As infection is caused in all men by that created principle which is responsible for propagation, that is, the flesh or inferior element, so healing is brought about by the uncreated Principle who is responsible for the infusion of the soul, that is, the higher element or the spirit. As regards the soul, men are unrelated in that one soul is not born of another, but all come directly from God. Healing grace, then, poured into the soul by God, applies to each one considered as a single, individual person, and not as a principle of physical propagation. Consequently, while original sin is a disease infecting both elements, the personal and the physical - the personal through the will and the physical through the flesh - the stain of original sin is blotted out in the soul, while on the other hand the infection and its consequences remain in the flesh. Now, man is a principle of propagation, not in his spirit which is healed, but in his flesh, which remains infected; not as spiritual, but as carnal. Hence, while he himself, a baptized person, is cleansed from original sin, he still hands it down to his offspring.
(III.7.2)
",,18103,"","""Consequently, while original sin is a disease infecting both elements, the personal and the physical - the personal through the will and the physical through the flesh - the stain of original sin is blotted out in the soul, while on the other hand the infection and its consequences remain in the flesh.""","",2011-01-13 05:43:47 UTC,"Part III, Chapter 7"
3416,"",Reading,2011-01-13 05:57:35 UTC,"5. Finally, the disease in us which Baptism radically opposes is original sin. This disease denies to the soul the life of grace; [it denies it] the enabling rectitude of all the virtues; it inclines the soul in a certain measure toward every kind of sin. Being inherited, ""it makes a child potentially concupiscent and a man actually so,"" and also reduces the soul to diabolical servitude, submitting it to the power of the prince of darkness. And so, for the efficient cure of the disease, this sacrament must provide a grace that regenerates, to offset the loss of the spiritual life; a grace that rectifies by means of a sevenfold power, to offset the loss of the enabling virtues; and a grace that cleanses of all sin, to offset every tendency to vicious disorder.
(VI.7.5)",,18109,"","""This disease denies to the soul the life of grace; [it denies it] the enabling rectitude of all the virtues; it inclines the soul in a certain measure toward every kind of sin.""","",2011-01-13 05:57:35 UTC,"Part VI, Chapter 7"