![]() Like the protagonist, we are challenged to understand our failures, learn to avoid them, and submit ourselves to the process that God already has in place for reforming us.Ī caveat should be made before going further: MacDonald, for all his true insight into the soul and its landscape, failed in accepting the full implications of free will. In Lilith, the Scottish author George MacDonald describes this adventure by means of mysterious analogies. Nevertheless, it is this very place, whence defiling things come, that must be ventured into, cleaned, and restored with the help of divine grace. But the things which come from a man, those are they that defile a man” (Mark 7:15). ![]() As Our Lord said, “There is nothing from without a man that entering into him, can defile him. ![]() The soul is a dangerous place, it is the most dangerous place, and in the perspective of eternity, it is the only dangerous place. ![]()
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