DAILY CONTEMPLATION

November 22, 2025 ~ Hathor 13, 1742

Evil has not from the beginning been with God or in God, nor has any substantive existence;
but men, in default of the vision of good,
began to devise and imagine for themselves what was not, after their own pleasure.
For as if a man, when the sun is shining, and the whole earth illumined by its light,
were to shut fast his eyes and imagine darkness where no darkness exists,
and then walk wandering as if in darkness, often falling and going down steep places,
thinking it was dark and not light—for, imagining that he sees, he does not see at all—
so, too, the soul of man, shutting fast her eyes, by which she is able to see God,
has imagined evil for herself, and moving therein, knows not that,
thinking she is doing something, she is doing nothing.
For she is imagining what is not, and she is not abiding in her original nature;
but what she is is evidently the product of her own disorder.
St. Athanasius