Today is the Feast Day of St Basil the Great, one of the Cappadocian Fathers.
Some individuals are sharp enough at
examining physical facts, but are culpably blind in regard to the
knowledge of the truth.
They know how to measure the distance
of the stars, to list those that shine in the region of the North
Pole and those that are visible only to the inhabitants of the areas
around the South Pole, and they know how to track the course of each
one with great care.
Of all their abilities only one is
missing that which would enable them to discover God as creator of
the universe and as a just judge who will reward each of the action s
of our existence as it deserves, an ability that would permit them at
the end of the world to have an adequate idea of universal judgment.
I is in fact absolutely necessary that
the world should be transformed if our souls are due to be
transformed in a different kind of life.
As the present life has affinities
with the nature of this world, so the kind of existence which will
apply to our souls tomorrow will have to have an environment
appropriate to their new condition.
From the Hexaemeron
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