LXXXIIl. De peccato luxuriae. ^ ^

LXXXIIl. De peccato luxuriae. ^ ^

But when a person indulges in lust through the desires of the flesh, he offers a sacrifice to demons. For when the soul is stirred by the taste of these pleasures, it darkens the eyes of the good knowledge, as if it were trying to cover its own eyes with its hands, and thus it goes into the darkness with the works of iniquity, saying: "I cannot stand, just as if I were not flesh." I can't abstain from such works, as God has made me live this way. . And so, like a millstone, it runs in evil deeds, and it builds up for itself a ruinous will through the kiss and the scent of lustful desires, gathering to itself the sins of lust. The fire of lust ignites in a woman's body, but it is fully realized in a man's loins; and this is compounded by the devil's persuasion, because the devil began his wicked scheme in a woman and perfected it in a man, just as fire burns more fiercely when it is blown by another.