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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Augustine
DESCRIPTION:THE IMMORTALITY \nOF WISDOM \nFrom the “Confessions” of St Augustine \n◊◊◊ \nMy studies which were deemed respectable had the objective of leading \nme to distinction as an advocate in the law courts\, where one’s reputation is high \nin proportion to one’s success in deceiving people… I wanted to distinguish \nmyself as an orator for a damnable and conceited purpose\, namely delight in \nhuman vanity. Following the usual curriculum I had already come across a book \nby a certain Cicero\, whose language (but not his heart) almost everyone \nadmires. That book of his contains an exhortation to study philosophy and is \nentitled Hortensius. The book changed my feelings. It altered my prayers\, Lord\, \nto be towards you yourself. It gave me different values and priorities. Suddenly \nevery vain hope became empty to me\, and I longed for the immortality of \nwisdom with an incredible ardour in my heart. I began to rise up to return to \nyou. For I did not read the book for a sharpening of my style\, which was what I \nwas buying with my mother’s financial support now that I was 18 years old and \nmy father had been dead for two years. I was impressed not by the book’s \nrefining effect on my style and literary expression but by the content. \nMy God\, how I burned\, how I burned with longing to leave earthly things \nand fly back to you. I did not know what you were doing with me. For with you \nis wisdom. \n‘Love of wisdom’ is the meaning of the Greek word philosophia. This \nbook kindled my love for it. There are some people who use philosophy to lead \npeople astray. They lend color to their errors and paint over them by using a \ngreat and acceptable and honorable name. Almost all those who in the author’s \ntimes and earlier behaved in this way are noted in that book and refuted. That \ntext is a clear demonstration of the salutary admonition given by your Spirit \nthrough your good and devoted servant Paul: See that none deceives you by \nphilosophy and vain deduction following human tradition; following the \nelements of this world and not following Christ; in him dwells all the fullness of \ndivinity in bodily form. \nAt that time\, as you know\, light of my heart\, I did not yet know these \nwords of the apostle. Nevertheless\, the one thing that delighted me in Cicero’s \nexhortation was the advice ‘not to study one particular sect but to love and seek \nand pursue and hold fast and strongly embrace wisdom itself\, wherever found.’ \nOne thing alone put a brake on my intense enthusiasm – that the name of Christ \nwas not contained in the book. This name\, by your mercy Lord\, this name of my \nSaviour your Son\, my infant heart had piously drunk in with my mother’s milk\, \nand at a deep level I retained the memory. Any book which lacked this name\, \nhowever well written or polished or true\, could not entirely grip me.
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