[Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott]@TWC D-Link bookLife of Father Hecker CHAPTER of the present biography 15/23
For it is an important truth of Fourier's that attractions are in proportion to destinies.
Fear in proportion to hope, pain in proportion to pleasure, strength in proportion to destiny, etc.
But it is mysterious that we know all this.
'Man has become as one of us.' We are all dead. "Ah, mystic! dost thou show thyself in this shape? But now, being dead, shall we receive life and immortality (for I imagine immortality the solidarity of life--i.e., the union of the two lives, here and heaven) through Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, and so lose 'the knowledge of good and evil.' For as in Adam all died, so shall ye all be made alive through Jesus Christ.' The effect of the fall was literally the knowledge of good and evil.
God knows no evil, and when we become one with Him, through the Mediator, we shall regain our previous state.
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