The soul without my Will...
would have been like the earth without the heavens, stars, Sun and moon.
The earth in itself is nothing other than precipices [afgronden], steep heights, waters and darkness. If the earth did not have a heaven above, which shows man the way to recognize the different dangers which the earth contains, man would go toward now falling, now drowning, etc.
But there is a heaven above. Especially with the Sun, which says to man in a mute language: ‘See, I have no eyes, no hands, and no feet, but I am the light of your eyes, the action of your hand, and the step of your foot. And when I have to illuminate other regions, I leave you the shining of the stars and the light of the moon, to continue my office.’
Now, as I gave a heaven to man for the good of his nature...
to his soul too - which is more noble - I gave the heaven of my Will.
Because the soul too contains precipices and steep heights - which are passions, virtues, tendencies and other things. If the soul moves out from under the heaven of my Will, she will do nothing other than fall, from sin to sin. Passions will drown her. And the heights of virtues will turn into abysses.
Therefore, just as everything would be disordered and infertile on the earth without a heaven... the same happens in the soul without my Will."
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