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| Chapter XX. Of one who for his blasphemy was given over to a most unclean spirit.
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Chapter XX.
Of one who for his blasphemy was given over to a most
unclean spirit.
I knew one of the number
of the brethren, whom I heartily wish I had never known; since
afterwards he allowed himself to be saddled with the responsibilities
of my order:1072
who confessed to
a most admirable elder that he was attacked by a terrible sin of the
flesh: for he was inflamed with an intolerable lust, with the unnatural
desire of suffering rather than of committing a shameful act: then the
other like a true spiritual physician, at once saw through the inward
cause and origin of this evil. And, sighing deeply, said: “Never
would the Lord have suffered you to be given over to so foul a spirit
unless you had blasphemed against Him.” And he, when this was
discovered, at once fell at his feet on the ground, and, struck with
the utmost astonishment, as if he saw the secrets of his heart laid
bare by God, confessed that he had blasphemed with evil thoughts
against the Son of God. Whence it is clear that one who is possessed by
the spirit of pride, or who has been guilty of blasphemy against
God,—as one who offers a wrong to Him from whom the gift of
purity must be looked for—is deprived of his uprightness and
perfection, and does not deserve the sanctifying grace of
chastity.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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