Conv. with Angels (Chadwick) n. 10

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10. Fallacies originate in the inversion of ideas, as [in thinking] about God from persons and not from essence, about the neighbour from the person, that is, from the form of his behaviour as a man and not from his real character, about heaven as a place and not from love and wisdom, about the Church from external worship and not from charity and from faith that is derived from charity, even about various things, from joys and pleasures and not from the loves out of which they arise.


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