Virtue and Desire

Virtue is a mental reaction that offers release.

Desire is an emotion that requires action as a remedy.

One is spiritual, the other materialistic.

One emanates outward. The other inward.

One gives, the other takes.

Self-preservation is the greatest passion as is self-sacrifice.

Life is more dramatic when you’re taunting death.

Nature demands procreation.
Desire demands we go to the heavens.
Virtue demands we Love all things.

I would be blind if not for the fig leaf

They brought into being
Gold and silver,
Money and coins,
Iron and other metals and all things of this sort.

And the people who were attracted were led astray into troubles
And were greatly misled.
And grew old
Experiencing no pleasure,
And died
Finding no truth,
Never knowing the true God.

This is the way that they enslaved all of creation
From the foundation of the world until now.

[They took some women and produced children out of darkness
And they closed their hearts
And they hardened themselves
in the hardness of their artificial spirit
Until the present day.] Nag Hammadi – Book of John