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| February 8, 2023 |
All that the universe has it derives from God, and in every one of its elements it represents some quality that exists in God. The great fact in the universe is life. Life is fecundity, each living creature producing further life of its own kind. There is no sterility except in death. Visible life witnesses to life in God, and fecundity therefore witnesses to His fecundity. Fecundity of life is a higher quality than sterility and loneliness ; it must exist therefore in God in an infinite form as a perfection. The world manifests the extrinsic activity of the divine energy ; there must be a greater, an infinite activity, within the being of God, and this activity cannot end in sterility. The Almighty Himself asks: "Shall not I, that make others bring forth, Myself bring forth? Shall I, that give generation to others, be barren? saith the Lord thy God" (Isa. Ixvi. 9). The supreme exemplar of all fecundity must then be found in God. The persons of the Blessed Trinity are the accom plishment of the divine life, and action, and fecundity. Our souls are gifted with fecundity by God ; they should produce divine thoughts and good deeds. Too often they exhibit a fecundity as to frivolities and sins, and a sterility as to spiritual fruits. Reverse this order in yourself; strive to be dead towards the world and self, but alive towards God.
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