Two worlds: the Christian and the worldly — the heart's true treasure
There is a great remove between Christians and the people of this present world. Those who have the spirit of the world are bound, heart and mind, in earthly fetters; but those who long for the love of the heavenly Father keep him alone before their eyes with a single desire.
The Christian's world is another world: another way of life, another mind, another speech, another deed. The world's people have their own way, mind, speech, and deed. The two are not the same kind of thing. When love of the world weighs even a little in the heart's yoke, the evil logos at once comes forward as far as the lips, and the mind stretches darts from within and wounds the neighbor through the tongue — seeking its own glory of its own will.
From this root every evil grows: theft, gluttony, lust, vainglory, anger, love of money, love of honor — every passion. God says, 'I am a jealous God' (Exodus 20:5). He scatters the bones of those who please themselves (Psalm 53:6). Whoever loves anything of the world binds himself under the yoke of his own will. The Christian must not be a man-pleaser (Galatians 1:10); 'friendship with the world is enmity with God' (James 4:4).
The Lord shows that those who follow the deceits and wills of the evil one bear Cain's image of wickedness: 'You wish to do the desires of your father; he was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth' (John 8:44). So the whole sinful race of Adam holds that sentence in secret — trembling and shaken in the sieve of the earth by the sieving Satan. As from one Adam the race was spread over the earth, so one wickedness of the passions has sunk into the sinful race, and the ruler of wickedness tosses all in restless, material, empty, troubled thoughts.
As one wind can shake every plant and seed, or one night's darkness cover the whole inhabited world, so the ruler of wickedness — a rational darkness of evil and death, a hidden fierce wind — tosses every race of people on earth, carrying them about in restless thoughts and worldly desires, filling every soul not born from above with darkness of ignorance, dullness, and forgetfulness.
True Christians differ from the whole race of people here: their mind and understanding remain in a heavenly way of thinking, and they behold the eternal goods by sharing in the Holy Spirit. They flee the world's desire and seek the heavenly treasure; they renounce self and the world and cleave to the Father alone. 'Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also' (Matthew 6:21). Do not love the world or the things in the world (1 John 2:15-17).
Greek
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Macarius the Egyptian, Spiritual Homilies 5–6: the two worlds, and the resurrection garment.
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densify Homilies 5–6 from OCR Greek
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