Larchet, Jean-Claude The Spiritual Unconsciousness or The Hidden Depths of the Heart Translation from French by Marinela Bojin When God made man, says Abba Dorotheus, He imprinted a spark of divinity upon him, like a warm, radiant thought, enlightening the mind and making it discern right from wrong, good from evil. This is conscience; it is the law of his nature. When our conscience urges us to do something, and we scorn it, and when it speaks again, and we do not do it, but continue to trample upon it - then we are lulling it, and it can no longer speak clearly to us, due to the burden lying on it; but like a smoked lamp it begins to show us things ever more dimly. And as no one is able to recognize his own face in water muddied by much silt, so we too, after transgressing, do not understand what our conscience is saying to us, so that it seems to us as if we do not have one at all. However, there is no man that does not have a conscience, for it is a divine trait and never perishes, but it always reminds us of our duty. Format: 13x20 cm, 288 p. ISBN: 978-973-136-154-3 “Orthodox Psychotherapy” «« back