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The life of Saint Issa
14 “Their souls were in God and when they wanted to communicate with the Father they did not have recourse to the mediation of an idol, an animal or a fire as you practise here."
15
"You pretend that one must worship the sun, the spirit of good and of evil; well, I say to you that your doctrine is detestible. The sun does not act spontaneously, but by the will of the invisible God who has created it,"
16 “And who has willed that this star should light the day and should warm the labour and the crops of man."
17 “The eternal spirit is the soul of all that it animates. You commit a great sin in dividing Him into the spirit of evil and that of good, for there is no God except that of good,"
18 "Who like unto the father of a family does only good to his children, whose faults he forgives if they repent of them."
19 “And the evil spirit dwells upon the earth in the heart of those men who turn the children of God from the right path."
20
"Therefore I say unto you: Fear the judgment day for God will inflict a terrible punishment upon those who have forced His children to deviate from the true light and who have filled them with superstition and prejudice,"
21
"Upon those who have blinded the acting, carried contagion to the strong, and taught the worship of those things which God
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