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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: in his order and place: some rise, while others set: and they run
their journey according to fixed seasons, to fulfil summer and
winter, as it hath been ordained for them by God, nor do they
transgress their proper bounds, according to the inexorable law
of nature, in common with the heavenly firmament. Whence it is
evident that the heaven is not a god, but only a work of God.
"They again that think that the Earth is a goddess have gone
astray. We behold it dishonoured, mastered, defiled and rendered
useless by mankind. If it be baked by the sun, it becometh dead,
for nothing groweth from a potsherd. And again, if it be soaked
overmuch, it rotteth, fruit and all. It is trodden under foot of
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