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Just As We Would Have No Need Of The Farmer's Labor And Toil If We Were Living Amid The Delights Of Paradise, So Also We Would Not Require The Medical Art For Relief If We Were Immune To Disease, As Was The Case, By God's Gift, At The Time Of Creation Before The Fall.

As It Is Impossible To Verbally Describe The Sweetness Of Honey To One Who Has Never Tasted Honey, So The Goodness Of God Cannot Be Clearly Communicated By Way Of Teaching If We Ourselves Are Not Able To Penetrate Into The Goodness Of The Lord By Our Own Experience.

He Who Confesses Magic Or Sorcery Shall Do Penance For The Time Of Murder, And Shall Be Treated In The Same Manner As He Who Convicts Himself Of This Sin.

No One Who Is In This World Will Deny That Evils Exist. What, Then, Do We Say? That Evil Is Not A Living And Animated Substance, But A Condition Of The Soul Which Is Opposed To Virtue And Which Springs Up In The Slothful Because Of Their Falling Away From Good.

Through The Holy Spirit Comes Our Restoration To Paradise, Our Ascension Into The Kingdom Of Heaven, Our Return To The Adoption Of Sons, Our Liberty To Call God Our Father, Our Being Made Partakers Of The Grace Of Christ, Our Being Called Children Of Light, Our Sharing In Eternal Glory, And, In A Word, Our Being Brought Into A State Of All "fulness Of Blessing," Both In This World And In The World To Come, Of All The Good Gifts That Are In Store For Us, By Promise Hereof, Through Faith, Beholding The Reflection Of Their Grace As Though They Were Already Present, We Await The Full Enjoyment.