Immorality and the Immortal Conservative: Volume 1

These are the two loves: the first is holy, the second foul, the first is social, the second selfish: the first consults the common welfare for the sake of celestial society, the second grasps at a selfish control of social affairs for the sake of arrogant domination; the first is submissive to God, the second tries to rival God; first is quiet the second restless; the first is peaceful the second trouble-making; the first prefers truth to the praises of those who are in error the second is greedy for praise, however it may be obtained: the first is friendly, the second envious; the first desires for its neighbor what it wishes for itself, the second desires to subjugate its neighb the first rules its neighbor for the good of its neighbor, the second for its own advanta and these two loves produce a distinction among the angels: the first love belongs to the good angels, the second to the bad angel; and they also separate the two cities founded among the race of men, under the wonderful and ineffable Providence of God, administering and ordering all things that have been created: the first city is that of the just, the second is that of the wicked. Although they are now, during the course of time, intermingled they shall be divided at the last judgment; the first, being joined by the good angels under its King, shall attain eternal life; the second, in union with the bad angels under its king, shall be sent into eternal fire. Perhaps, we shall treat, God willing, of these two cities more fully in another place. Book jacket.