“The only consolation is the thought that, if this reality is the product of fallen spiritual consciousness, then we must truly have possessed a divine nature when we were still there above. Only gods could fall quite so far. Still, sometimes one can’t help but cast a jaundiced eye on everything, even the things we know to be good and noble and beautiful. Sometimes we look up at the star-strewn heavens and see the glorious garment of God spread out over our heads, like a sheltering pavilion. But we’d have to be fools not, at other times, to look up at those same stars and see only the vast,
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