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from Olivier Clement's On Human Being:
It is out of respect for our freedom that God allows evil to exist; it has already been conquered, but secretly, because the Holy Spirit wishes to regenerate us from within, by a free and faithful response, without compulsion...
...[At]the completion of all things...each person, in giving his face to the transfigured universe, will rediscover his flesh; flesh vibrant with all its natural sensitivity, our earthly flesh, but bathed in the life and fullness of God...
...All the complexity of our nature, shaped as it has been by the dramatic events of history, and by the ways we have used and misused our freedom; all the ambiguity, henceforth transfigured, of the "garments of skin" will find a place in the Kingdom; in the being that was created wholly good we have used our freedom to dig holes of nithingness; but we shall discover to our amazement that they have become the wounds in Christ's hands and feet and heart, through which the divine life comes to us and will come to us forever...
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