St Maximos the Confessor - It is the devil’s practice to maliciously confound...
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It is the devil’s practice to maliciously confound the forms and shapes of sensible things with our conceptual images of them.
Through these forms and shapes are generated passions for the outward aspects of visible things, and our intellectual energy, being halted at the level of what pertains to sense-perception, cannot raise itself to the realm of intelligible realities.
In this way the devil despoils the soul and drags it down into the turmoil of the passions.
St Maximos the Confessor
