Villanova University - Belle Air Yearbook (Villanova, PA)

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The punishment for this first evil wos the erection of Eternal Hell and the judg- ment that in that place of unrelieved Horror, Satan was to dwell forever and to remain wretchedly opposed in endless misery to the Beneficent designs of God for all His creatures. The poet, describing the activities of the doomed followers of Satan, who im- mediately set upon the work of building a City to rival the Eternal Dwelling of the Faithful Angels, called their home Pandemonium . From it. as from a base of op- erations, Satan and his hellish band issued forth to wreak their vengeance on God by alienating the loyalty and obedience of His second creaturo—Man. In the Garden of Eden the devilish mission had its first success: Adam and Eve succumbed to the Satan-inspired spirit of rebellion.

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and of their own Eternal Destiny. Separated from the source of All Good, the heart of man and the mind of man was turned inward upon himself to a half terrorized realization of his own depravity. His first attempt to set up a permanent City of Refuge is recorded in the story of the Tower of Babel. With the frustration of these plans the course of human history has followed either the path of successively decay- ing civilizations or the path into the darkness of barbarism and savagery, where out- cast from social orderliness man led a semi-animal existence in the gloom of idolatry, superstition, voodoo, and reliqious terror. Here, more than elsewhere, the work and the fruits of the operatives from Pandemonium were most apparent. Yet, side by side with this City of Evil , has always existed the City of God peopled by those of His creatures who remained faithful to Him.