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On what sort of death we must die in order to see God, to be united to Reason and delivered from concupiscence. The grace of faith gives us this happy death. Christians are dead to sin because of baptism, and are living in the risen Jesus Christ. On the mortification of the senses, and the use we must make of them. We must be united to, or separated from, bodies without either loving or fearing them. But the most sure remedy of all is to break off all intercourse with them, as much as we can.

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Malebranche, N. (1993). Chapter Eleven. In: Treatise on Ethics (1684). International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D’histoire Des Idées, vol 133. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2480-5_12

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