But it is only now that it is in revolt it will at last be vanquished by the Spirit, bound for ever in the Abyss, its Powers totally destroyed. Yes, it has existed before time, and will survive time itself. The egoistic act of pride was the fountain-head of all Sin. Intoxicated by the Light of God, the Evil Spirit rebelled against Him and sought it for himself. Certain acts which tend to this have been listed as sins – such as violence, sex-lust, and possessiveness.
Sin is the Soul’s disloyal turning from God to Matter, accepting the sensual delights in place of spiritual ecstasy.
WORLD OF DARKNESS SIN VIRTUES AND VICES LIST FULL
Divine in source and end, its powers are limited while held captive in the body.Ĭharmed by the spiritual beauty of the Light, the demons of the Darkness tried to capture it from themselves so they made the body, to draw the Soul’s attention away from God, its full perfection, to the lower pleasures of the flesh. The Soul is a Spark of God’s Light, a part of His very Being, separated off from Him to be absorbed into the darkness of Matter and gradually to refine and purify as much of it as possible. Man is a divine Spirit imprisoned in a body of flesh created by the demons to ensnare his divinity in their world of darkness. The Divine Mind, or “Living Spirit” fashioned it as a means of liberating Soul from Matter, the Light-Sparks of God from the enslaving Darkness – through the practice of the Twelve Virtues and the loving labours of the Luminaries or Saviours. SO it will be dissolved when these eternal opposites are separated from each other, the Light having been cleansed of all contaminating shadows. It is a mixture of Good and Evil, Spirit and Matter, Light and Darkness. Compared with the Light-World’s eternity, it is only a fleeting shadow dissipated by the dawn. Has the physical world any real existence?Ĭertainly it is real, but it exists only until its purpose is achieved by the separation of the Light and Darkness. The infinite and ineffable beneficent King of the Light, manifesting Himself in vast cosmic Powers or Emanations to overthrow the aggression of evil Darkness on His spiritual Realm, and also immanent throughout the universe.Ĥ. When Evil irrupted into the Light-Realm, the physical universe was designed for their gradual separation.Īll existing things derive from one of these two: the infinite Light of spiritual Goodness, the bottomless Darkness of evil Matter, coexistent and totally opposed to one another. It has always existed on the subtler planes: Two Realms, one of Light ruled by God, and one of Darkness ruled by the Evil Spirit. How did this Universe come into existence? In popular culture, the seven deadly sins inspired the plot of the 1995 thriller Seven and a manga/anime series, The Seven Deadly Sins.1. 16th-century Dutch-Flemish Renaissance master Brueghel the Elder strikingly painted all seven deadly sins, as did American painter Paul Cadmus some 400 years later. Many great works of literature have explored the seven deadly sins, including Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Dante’s Purgatorio, and Edmund Spenser’s The Fairie Queene. The seven deadly sins also have counterparts, the seven heavenly virtues: humility (opposed to pride), kindness (envy), temperance (gluttony), charity (greed), chastity (lust), diligence (sloth), and patience (wrath). The seven deadly sins are also called cardinal sins, with cardinal meaning “fundamental” and echoing capital’s sense of causation. A “deadly” sin thus suggests a grave and destructive act. A capital crime or punishment, for instance, involved the loss of life, or the head, metaphorically. The head leads the body as the capital vices, chief among them pride and greed, lead to further immorality.Ībout a century after Aquinas published Summa Theologica, capital meant “deadly” in English. In his influential 13th-century text Summa Theologica, Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas further expounded on the seven deadly sins, which he called “capital vices.” To Aquinas, the seven deadly sins were the cause of all other offenses: “In this way a capital vice is one from which other vices arise.” Capital comes from the Latin caput, “head,” Aquinas explains. Broadly speaking, the seven deadly sins function as ethical guidelines. For his list, Gregory drew from the ideas of Evargius Ponticus, a fourth century Christian monk who identified eight evils humans should resist. While the concept of an inventory of moral offenses has roots in antiquity, Pope Gregory I first enumerated the seven deadly sins in the late sixth century.
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