Not exact matches
The discipline
and penances
of the
body and soul are born out
of an awareness
of the
evil which exists in the person's attachment to the fallen world through the senses, the intellect,
and the spirit.They are meant to assist in the purification
of these fallen attachments within the human person.
By the deliberate choice
of evil, the first generation
of human beings did not just lose «preternatural gifts», they tore themselves away from their true source
of control
and direction, damaging their own integration
and ontological harmony as creatures
of body and soul.
He emphasizes the affirmation
of the goodness
of the material world, the refusal to regard the
body as
evil,
and the significance
of the resurrection doctrine in opposition to the Greek views
of the immortality
of the
soul.
Hickson documented his assertion with specific cases: Complete cures were claimed as to pain, rheumatism, ear discharge, goiter, severe headaches,
and blood poisoning (p. 118); blindness, paralysis, deafness, possession by
evil spirits, asthma, stammering,
and curvature
of the spine (p. 128); palsy, dumbness,
and mental deficiency (p. 151); deformed feet
and legs made almost entirely normal (p. 152); «the healing
of sin - sick
souls»
and «the healing
of the
body» (p. 168); partial paralysis, paralysis, infantile paralysis, rheumatoid arthritis, neuritis, St. Vitus's dance, epilepsy,
and mental disorders (pp. 182 - 183).»
The
soul takes up a temporary dwelling in a «
body» which functions as a prison
and as the source
of evil desires
and suffering.
Mankind is consisting
of Body, Spirit
and Soul the last
of which has control
of the faith
of those two but by controlling it as the peeling
evil as peeling onions a man would reach the spiritual core
of becoming pure spiritual that can make use
of senses more than those material ones... refer to (Terror free verses below);
They include the naming
of angels (Michael, Raphael
and so on); a personal Devil (which Satan later became) with accompanying demons; a Book
of Life which records the deeds
of people during their lifetime; a coming cosmic conflict in which the forces
of evil will be finally overthrown; the separation
of the
soul from the
body at death; a general resurrection
and a universal judgement;
and an afterlife with rewards
and punishments.
When Jonah returns to unleash a new kind
of horror on the innocent family, Sara enlists the aid
of enigmatic priest Popescu (Elias Koteas) in driving the
evil out before it consumes her son's
body and soul.
She is the author
of four books: Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making
of One
of the World's Wealthiest Widows;
Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight
of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas; Hitler's Silent Partners: Swiss Banks, Nazi Gold
and the Pursuit
of Justice;
and See No
Evil: The Strange Case
of Christine Lamont
and David Spencer.