This book's like black holes. It really engulfes you whole.
It is as though God said, "You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one.
The Measure of My Days
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The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost the knowledge of God, they lost existence with it; for it is God alone Who exists, evil is non-being, the negation and antithesis of good.