VIRTUE SUMMARY
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the complexity of the soul’s decline:
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money….power….fortune….fame….pleasure….
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the soul’s edification:
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poverty….obedience….prophecy….zeal….chastity….
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the soul’s simplicity before concupiscence:
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no thing had….no one important….no knowledge prominent….
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no retreat possible….no desire embraced….
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the soul’s rest:
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gloried in nakedness….focused in surrender….known in anonymity….
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empty in self….enraptured in peace….
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souls enter the world to learn with poverty chastity obedience zeal prophecy….
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souls exit the world to summon the brilliance in glory of their own identity in God:
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the memory, intellect, will, resolve, holiness, to be at rest, in peace, in awe, the stillness….
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perpetually eternally in heaven with GOD….
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