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   "After our forefather's transgression in paradise through the tree, we   
   suffered the death of our soul - which is the separation of the soul from   
   God - prior to our bodily death; yet although we cast away our divine   
   likeness, we did not   
      
   lose our divine image. Thus when the soul renounces its attachment to   
   inferior things and cleaves through love to God and submits itself to Him   
   through acts and modes of virtue, it is illuminated and made beautiful by   
   God and is raised to a higher level, obeying His counsels and exhortations;   
   and by these means it regains the truly eternal life. Through this life it   
   makes the body conjoined to it immortal, so that in due time the body   
   attains the promised resurrection and participates in eternal glory."   
      
   St. Gregory Palamas.   
      
   "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will   
      
   overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be   
   called the Son of God." Luke 1:35   
      
   Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)