Our spiritual nature is drawn to the good, the true and the beautiful. These perfections are found in God. Can we utterly detach ourselves from this nature? Absolute evil as a privation is impossible. It cannot exist. Might the damned in hell still be drawn to some fragment or particular manifestation of this triad. All creatures as made by God share in something of his goodness, even if they should reject his favor. That includes Satan and wicked men and women. Every human criminal started life as an innocent child. Truth also retains its binding force, no matter how much it might be denied. It is what it is. The denial of truth damages us and all around us. While the damned have lost their righteous beauty in grace, is there not some fragment or fading after-image left behind? Along with the fire of God that keeps the denizens of hell in existence, might the good, the true and the beautiful constitute something of the agony of hell?
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