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Shorter Rules

St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 248: If the Lord Gives Wisdom and from His Face is Knowledge and Understanding; and…

If a man knows the goodness of God Who willeth that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of truth and has learned the care of the Holy Spirit, shown in the distribution and efficacy of the gifts of God, he knows the slowness of understanding due not to any sloth on the part of the Benefactor but to the unbelief of those who are benefited. And he who is devoid of understanding is rightly accused as one who, when the sun rises, shuts his eyes that he may live in darkness and not look up and be illuminated.

Notes

  1. Mt. xv. 16.
  2. See Rom. i. 31. If we reconstruct the state of mind which prompted this question, we find it closely akin to that of the Illuminati, “Keswick School,” etc.

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