But alas! man, having learned his vocation, has fallen from his dignity. Having renounced God, he renounces the spirit; and not living by the spirit, he begins to live by the flesh. Like the stars in the sky, all his bright thoughts and feelings slowly fade away! Where sin, contrary to the virtue of chastity, has taken root, there it is dull, empty and dark in thought and heart! For it is no longer God, but Satan who rules over such thought and heart, blowing out that fire of hell, which does not warm, but burns, which does not enlighten, but darkens! – A man given over to such a sin, stupefied in spirit, slowly turns into a corpse and in body. This fire burns and soils him everywhere.