29 January 2008

Related to the Last Post

But if the life to come were to admit those who lack the faculties and senses necessary for it, it would avail nothing for their happiness, but they would be dead and miserable living in that immortal world. The reason is that the light would appear and the sun would shine with its pure rays with no eye having been formed to see it. The Spirit's fragrance would be abundantly diffused and pervading all, but one would not know it without already having the sense of smell. -- St. Nicholas Cabasilas, *The Life in Christ*

Cf. to *The Last Battle* in the scene with Lucy and the Dwarfs.

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