falsifying the absolute

"...for the intellect remains eternally confined within the realm of the conditioned, and goes on eternally asking questions without ever lighting upon any ultimate answer...Because the life of sense knows no purpose other than its own advantage...His concern is not with the holy, but merely with a powerful, being. The spirit in which he worships God is tehrefore fear, which degrades him, not reverence, which exalts him in his own estimation."

"the moral is still at the service of the physical: in either case the sole principle prevailing within him is a material one, and man is, at least in his ultimate tendency, a creature of sense-with this solde difference, that in the first case he is an animal void of reason, in the second an animal endowed with reason. What heis meant to be, however, is neither of these; he is meant to be a human being. Nature is not meant to rule him exclusively, nor reason to rule him conditionally. Both thesesystems of ruleare meant to coexist, in perfect independence of each other, and yet in perfect concord."

(Schiller, AEoM, Twenty-Fourth Letter)

we are naturally fallen (and it is much easier to work with gravity than to push against it). Although it is the push against gravity that is ultimately our victory which has already been won...we merely need to understand that victory and live under Grace, eternally. We set ourselves up for and place ourselves under the rule of our flesh willingly (or not) and spend so many passing minutes dwelling on the temporal. Let us not be driven by fear, but by reverence and joy. Transform your mind and conform it to God who has freely given us all things. We strive so much to be free without realizing that freedom is already set within us. Be still and tune into God's heavenly song over you.