inzet v

The struggle between the two cities...

can be explained not only by the action of Satan...

but also by the original sin passed down by Adam to his descendants. Sin is a hereditary disease. Everyone, after Adam, is born into sin, at any time and in any place. Humanity is therefore diseased, but not dead, because sin inclines the nature of man towards evil, but does not wholly corrupt him. The nature is diseased, but evil does not constitute the essence of the nature.

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Original sin wounds the soul and body of man...

producing a moral disorder culminating in sin...

and a physical disorder culminating in death. 

However, the gravest consequence of Adam’s sin was not the introduction of the death of the body, but the introduction of the death of the soul, the severance of the sublime relationship which bound God to the rational creature.

Death, disease, suffering, anguish, error, doubt, conflict: all are the outcome of original sin.

Donoso Cortés writes:

“Sin covered heaven with mourning, hell with flames, and the earth with weeds. It brought disease, pestilence, hunger and death to the world. It dug the grave for the most illustrious and populous cities, presided over the destruction of Babylon, the city of the magnificent gardens, Nineveh the magnificent, Persepolis, daughter of the sun, Memphis of the profound mysteries, Sodom the impure, Athens the cradle of art, Jerusalem the ingrate [overdreven gedienstige], Rome the great. 

Sin is responsible for the groans which emerge from the breasts of men, and the tears which drop by drop flow from the eyes of men. Yet the gravest aspect of sin, which no intellect can conceive of and no words express, is that it could rend tears from the most holy eyes of the Son of God, the meek lamb nailed to the cross, burdened with the sins of the world.” 

In the Garden of Olives, “He experienced sadness and agitation, and the horror of the sin was the cause of this extraordinary agitation and sadness. His brow sweated blood, and the spectre of the sin was the cause of this extraordinary sweating of blood. He was nailed to a wooden cross, and it was the sin which nailed him there; it was the sin which gave Him agony, the sin which gave him death.”

However, the origin of the mysterium iniquitatis was not the sin of Adam and Eve, but the sin of Lucifer. The disobedience of Adam and Eve was in fact under the influence of Satan, but no one influenced Satan, whose sin did not merit God’s pardon, unlike that of our progenitors, because Satan was the cause of the sin.

For this reason, if Christ, the new Adam, is the leader of the City of God, it is not Adam, but Lucifer who is the leader of the Civitas diabuli. Therefore, according to the Book of Wisdom: “Invidia diabuli mors intravit in orbe terrarum” [Wisdom 2:24].


~bron~