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Surely some revelation is at(Continued from Page 6)I_t * ~ 'verse of light and the world of Space as “thePrince of this world”? Were th? slow planetarydevelopments,, geplogical periods, the vanishing of*^re-historilt;s animals all involved in this “chdos andvoid”? Karl Vogt. the^geologist, believe so: “No boasting about faith or pious breakneck leaps w i|Garden. Death has existed froi the very begins ning, and be it said, in its cruelest forms. „ Generally speaking, scarcely -any more dreadful torments have been invented by perverted human ingenuity, than those by which nature destroys itscreatures.” .. -_____ '■ M ■ .What happened between verse 1 and 2 inGenesis? Was tha chaos and void due to the fallof the angels? We do not know, but we do kuowi that a few drops of poison dropped in a well spoils the well, so there has been a repercussion, an echo, a reverberation of. evil somewhere in the cosmos. -Is there, In Creation, a dis-creative demonic element, so much so that “the whole created universe groans in all its. parts” (Rom. 8/22) awaiting Redemption?i .....* •/ r .Are the grotesque demons that peer out of every doorway and arch^f Notre Dame Cathedral the symbolic expression of the dbnflict of the Holy-and the Adversary, even in the House of God? In passing, It is worth noting; fascination , the Devil has for oiuvday. Observe number. of plays, novels and graffiti which make hifrf% kind of hpro. In previous ages of faith, the Devil made us believe that he did not exist. Today, though, we deny his existence; some even deny angels, whether good or bad. This.negation makes the devil more popular than ever. We can play with him as a myth, while he works as a reality .That is why Etlt; • .ortrays Satan even in a Crucifixxor and the poet, Yeats, looks forward to the awful day when the new beast will be born in Bethle-“heSTtFclo^histinal-evil:—- ;-=man,The darkness drops again;That weaity^ centuriepof^s Were vexed to ni^tmate to And what rough beast; itsking cradle,ehme roundSlouches toward Bethlehem to he bom”. — ____ ~_*_;_a_C. S. -Lewis’s “Screwtapjg .Letters” and Denis doTtougemont^‘The^DevD^^hare^m’e=other-4iter-ary expressions of dSi Adversary that opposes the Divine in the modern worldturbed the original beautyAdam evil begirps with a hw evil may have begun with a in Eveii the beginning of the Pii -with His encounter with Sa ginning of the cosmos ^ theGhaos-Makeror the “spmtual-jiin the heavenly places” (EpfiriaIn the next article we will show how Christ InHis eariWy Life began to bring both man and the cosmos, through, man, back to. the Original Plan*nd could have dis-of creation. With in will, but cosmicof Our Lord ifes the beet with the
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Rochester Courier Journal
Rochester, New York, US
Fri, Jan 17, 1969
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