Doc. of Life (Dick) n. 94

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94. Every one engages in combat who believes that there is a hell and a heaven, and that heaven is eternal happiness and hell eternal unhappiness; and who believes further that those who do evil go to hell, and those who do good go to heaven. Moreover, he who engages in combat acts from an interior principle and in opposition to that lust which constitutes the root of evil; for he who fights against anything does not will it, and to lust is to will. Hence it is evident that the root of evil is only removed by combat.


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