Gravity and Grace

absolute accept action affliction asceticism atheism attached attention Base motives Beast beautiful become Catholic Christ Christianity collective soul conceive consent consolation contemplation contradiction creature cross death degraded desire destroyed detachment distance divine dream Editor's note effort empty endure energy eternal everything evil exist extreme fact faith false feel force future give grace gravity harm hell human misery idea idolatry illusion imaginary imagination imitation impossible infinite innocent limit Marxism matter means metaxu mystery mystical natural faculties nature necessary necessity never nothingness obedience object opposite ourselves pain perfect Pharisees Phèdre Plato possible present Provençal pure purity real presence reality redemptive suffering relationship ring of Gyges seek sense Simone Simone Weil slave slavery social soul Spanish Testament spiritual supernatural love things thought tion totalitarian transcendent transubstantiation true truth universe unreal Upanishads violence virtue void wish wretchedness