posted June 12, 2007 11:12 AM         

This is the very passage my eyes fell upon.
Perhaps it may be of assistance to others as well:

"This adversary (ours and God's) knows that the ruler of the excitable part is the thinking power. Consequently, he directs his first arrows against it by means of thoughts, as I have said, of suspicion, envy, argumentativeness, quarrelsomeness, deceit, and vanity, and presses the mental power to abandon its natural authority and relinquish the reins of government to excitation itself, thus leaving it with no government. Then excitation, overthrowing its master, unrestrainedly pours out through the lips everything that the enemy [Satan] had previously implanted in the heart, and concealed there by means of thoughts allowed by negligence of mind. Then the heart shows itself as filled, not with the Spirit of God and Divine Thoughts, but with unbridled malice, for, as the Lord says, 'of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh'. When in this way the evil one brings a man to the state when he pours out in words what was previously secretly devised within, then this captive of the enemy will not only say to his brother Raca or Fool, but will utter the most offensive things and may later even go as far as murder. These are the wiles used by the evil one in relation to the commandment given us by the Lord of not being angry... And yet it is possible not to come to offensive words and what follows if, immediately upon the appearance of the excitable suggestion, the thoughts, which inflame the heart, are driven away by prayer and attention to what takes place within. Thus this destroyer of souls attains his evil ends only when he finds a man ready to transgress the Divine commandments under the influence of thoughts introduced into his heart."

posted June 13, 2007 07:36 AM         

(I need this, too!)

posted June 13, 2007 11:16 AM         

You're welcome.

Love to you, Xena.