Last Judgment (Cont.) (Chadwick) n. 63

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63. Human beings owe to their heredity a desire to have power over more and more people as their restraints are successively removed, and finally over all; the inmost of this love is a desire to be invoked and worshipped as a god. All therefore who have been canonised by papal bulls are taken from the sight of others and kept apart, being denied any contact with those who venerate them. This is in order to prevent that root which is the worst of evils being stirred up in them, so that they fall into such delusions of the imagination as occur in the hell just mentioned. Such delusion is the lot of those who, while they lived in the world, made great efforts to become saints after death so that they should be invoked.


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