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Updated: May 15, 2025
When therefore qualities which were once useful on their own level are outgrown but unsublimated, and check the movement towards life's spiritualization, then whatever they may be they belong to the body of death, not to the body of life, and are "sin." "Call sin a lump none other thing than thyself," says "The Cloud of Unknowing."
History assures us that there is no easy sliding into the life of the Spirit. A secondary cause of such world refusal is the first awakening of the contemplative powers; the intuition of Eternity, hitherto dormant, and felt at this stage to be in its overwhelming reality and appeal in conflict with the unreal world and unsublimated active life.
Instead, we have, acted on the crowd level, swayed by unsublimated instincts of acquisition, disguised lust, self-preservation, self-assertion, and ignoble fear: and such a fall-back is the very essence of social sin. We have made many plans and elevations; but we have not really tried to build Jerusalem either in our own hearts or in "England's pleasant land."
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