They love to be deceived

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We are surrounded with error—the carnal heart is full of it. For wherever truth is not—there error must be.

A veil of ignorance is by nature spread thickly over the mind, through which not one ray of divine light penetrates. Men love error—religious error—for God's own testimony is that they love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil.

 They love to be deceived—they hate the hand which would tear the delusion away. While then they are encompassed with the mists of error, how can they find the way to truth?

The Spirit alone can dissipate these clouds, disperse these mists, and take away this veil of unbelief and ignorance spread over the heart—and this it is His sacred office to perform, for He is the "Spirit of truth."