Darkness of Mere Logic
Conscience is the art of arts. Without it we may obey but more so as in a mental model that does not fit reality or spiritual energies. Just as a man may go running with a sense of perfect posture, his body is impeded by a rigid mindset that does not suit his body. When relaxed, in God, at peace, and fertile, he may run with speed and agility, his muscles moving in flowing and in flexible cohesion with one another, connected and powerfully natural.
When we begin to sense the pricking of conscience with our attention in the heart, we see the challenge of moral goodness. We see the sins of our heart, and we begin to lose hope, for before this illumination of the conscience, we were seemingly obeying God. However, when we follow our conscience deeply, we are doing the will of God with divine affirmation, moving forward as a river flows through earth, through stone, and through soil, the beds of rocks, filling the empty spaces, we abide in the will of God.
It is impossible to obey God, to become holy, to live in the peace of the will of God, without the embrace of conscience, its fire in the heart and its fuel to our spiritual lives, daily choices, and bringing connection to God.
The union of our souls with God is the use of this divinely given life. For without it, our prayers are utterances, our actions temporal, and our lives shadows or mere outward, awkward imitations of moral uprightness and sainthood. It is a caricature of heroism, of virtue, of Christianity. A cultural showing, rather than a living and intuitive way of being.
The light of conscience is from God, and it is given as a guide for the soul amidst the darkness of uncertainty and moral infinities, to seek and find the being of God in all words, acts, thoughts, and prayers. To find the softness of his presence within our choices. It leads to heaven, it leads to an unbroken life of blessings. It is a fortress against sin, and a castle defending the soul from all evil. It is the siren of heaven against the entrance into hell.
There is no greater darkness than a life without moral sense, for not even logic can guide such a man.
You may reason appropriately at times, however you cannot grasp the difference between an immoral act and a moral one in its essential difference. For example, do you know that it is wrong to hurt or to deceive another? Or were you simply raised to believe it is wrong? If so, you may allow white lies, or even gray lies, not knowing in essence the wrong against the right. What holds you back from wrong and from lying? Cultural ways, society’s instruction, or God and your deep sense of wrong. To know, to see, to feel the core of morality and a right act, to know as well an evil act, not only by example, by cultural rules, but by true understanding and heartfelt sense, is in fact the core of morality. Therefore, when we lose the fountain of knowledge for moral acts, the source, God himself, we are left to make choices based on other’s interpretations. With countless voices and interpretations, with no core sense and core knowledge, the wrong choice is often made, based on precedent as a guiding principle, or even the moments delight, easily manipulated.
Conscience is a living energy, not only a right perception of right and wrong in general, but for each moment and decision.