Hidden behind what we often perceive as the crude and medieval austerity of the list of the seven deadly sins, lies profound teaching which has nothing to be ashamed of in comparison to the subtle intricacies of the Buddhist ramifications.
The “cardinal” aspect of those sins invites us to consider each entries as the head, the pediment, the skull (Golgotha).
From each of these parent branches stems a tree of “child branches”.
In the gardens of the soul, each of these sins grows in a chaotic manner and seems, through spontaneous generation, to continually feed on itself, to the point of smothering all vegetation, and dooming the land to darkness.
This is where the punishment is “capital”: the helpless soul suffocates and dies.
To this self-generation is added a phenomenon of reciprocal feeding : each of the sins on the list calls and nourishes the six others. Without irrigation of Consciousness, the spiritual outcome is fatal.
Each of the seven deadly sins percolates in the three fields of pneuma-psyche-soma.
And if the suffocation is above all spiritual, it is indeed the mind which is sick and the body which withers.
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Note : The cardinal sins enumerated by medieval philosophers and theologians: pride (or vanity, vainglory), envy, gluttony, greed (or avarice), lust, sloth (or acedia), and wrath (or anger). .
Text : May et Franck
©FJ Jan 2024
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