[Seraphita by Honore de Balzac]@TWC D-Link bookSeraphita CHAPTER IV 16/49
Hence the doctrine of the two principles of Magianism, brought from Asia and adopted in Europe under the form of Satan warring with the Eternal Father.
But this religious formula and the innumerable aspects of divinity that have sprung from it are surely crimes against the Majesty Divine.
What other term can we apply to the belief which sets up as a rival to God a personification of Evil, striving eternally against the Omnipotent Mind without the possibility of ultimate triumph? Your statics declare that two Forces thus pitted against each other are reciprocally rendered null. "Do you turn back, therefore, to the other side of the problem, and say that God pre-existed, original, alone? "I will not go over the preceding arguments (which here return in full force) as to the severance of Eternity into two parts; nor the questions raised by the progression or the immobility of the worlds; let us look only at the difficulties inherent to this second theory.
If God pre-existed alone, the world must have emanated from Him; Matter was therefore drawn from His essence; consequently Matter in itself is non-existent; all forms are veils to cover the Divine Spirit.
If this be so, the World is Eternal, and also it must be God.
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