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A great portion of her writing is directed at what seems to be begging, a prayer, for a new church separated from the legalism and statism that defined the contemporary. On page 77, Simone spends three paragraphs expounding on her rejection of anathema sit.  “It is the use of the two little words anathema sit. It is not their existence, but the way they have been employed up until now. It is that also which prevents me from crossing the threshold of the church” .  Simone is saying that anathema sit is the only reason why she is not in the church  and this because her own intelligence is numbered among those things that are categorized as anathema sit. She feels such a compulsion to the church that she is literally being divided between her mind and her soul.  

A great portion of her writing is directed at what seems to be begging, a prayer, for a new church separated from the legalism and statism that defined the contemporary. On page 77, Simone spends three paragraphs expounding on her rejection of [[anathema]] sit.  “It is the use of the two little words anathema sit. It is not their existence, but the way they have been employed up until now. It is that also which prevents me from crossing the threshold of the church” .  Simone is saying that anathema sit is the only reason why she is not in the church  and this because her own intelligence is numbered among those things that are categorized as anathema sit. She feels such a compulsion to the church that she is literally being divided between her mind and her soul.  

The strength of her obedience to God’s will forces her too constantly try to get into the church . She asserts several times that aligning one with the will of God is a force of nature. The human soul will always try to better the human in the sense that without it the human is simply an animal free to indulge in base desires. The human soul always pushes the human toward obedience to God for several reasons. The main reason as explained by Simone Weil is that “the whole of creation is but a vibration of the word of God ” Furthermore, Since our whole essence is but a by-product of Gods command the only way we can be unified with him, to achieve the telos of the Christian life, it to be obedient; she goes further to say that “as soon as we feel this obedience with our whole being, we see God” . Indeed this force of nature that Simone refers to that deprives us of our freedom is attested to by the erratic nature of the church body. Weil says, “A blind mechanism, heedless of degrees of spiritual perfection, continually tosses men about and throws some of them at the very foot of the Cross” .

The strength of her obedience to God’s will forces her too constantly try to get into the church . She asserts several times that aligning one with the will of God is a force of nature. The human soul will always try to better the human in the sense that without it the human is simply an animal free to indulge in base desires. The human soul always pushes the human toward obedience to God for several reasons. The main reason as explained by Simone Weil is that “the whole of creation is but a vibration of the word of God ” Furthermore, Since our whole essence is but a by-product of Gods command the only way we can be unified with him, to achieve the telos of the Christian life, it to be obedient; she goes further to say that “as soon as we feel this obedience with our whole being, we see God” . Indeed this force of nature that Simone refers to that deprives us of our freedom is attested to by the erratic nature of the church body. Weil says, “A blind mechanism, heedless of degrees of spiritual perfection, continually tosses men about and throws some of them at the very foot of the Cross” .