The Dominican writes this:
“Do what we may, we here on earth see the spiritual and the divine only through
their reflection in material things. It is owing to this that we attach immense
importance to material happenings, such as the loss of an eye, whereas events
of the spiritual world, with consequences that are incalculable, are allowed to
pass almost unnoticed, such as an act of charity in the order of goodness, or
in the sphere of evil a mortal sin. In other words, we see the spiritual and
the diine as in the twilight, in the shadow of the sensible…”
A priest friend of mine told me months ago that the
psychologists and psychiatrists connected to a famous, local, university
hospital were worse than useless at curing their patients. He noted that they
only attempt to cure the physical, and, as agnostics or atheists, ignore the
real source of many mental problems, the soul.
His interpretation was shared with person who is dealing
with a bi-polar son and this woman disagreed, as she could not see the
connection, the underlying reality that the soul forms the body, and that
disturbances in the soul will, obviously, affect the brain.
The glorification of material science over theology and
philosophy creates a false science of psychology, unless this newer science
deals with the soul.
God in the greatness of His all-illuminating Wisdom sees the
material in the greater context of the spiritual.
Here is Garrigou-Lagrange again: “It is not through the body that God views the soul of the just; it is
rather through the soul that He views the body as a sort of radiation of the
soul. Hence, His sight is not dazzled by outward show, by wealth and its
trappings; what counts with God is charity. A beggar in rags but with the heart
of a saint, is of incomparably greater worth in the sight of God than a Caesar
in all the splendour of his human glory.”
Great saints on the inside, as it were, but hidden from the
sight of so many….
To be continued…
