All her original brightness, nor appears

Less than Arch-angel mind, and the excess

Of glory obscure."

Paradise Lost, i. 591-593.

Compare, too—

" ... but his face

Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care

Sat on his faded cheek."

Ibid., i., 600-602.]

[98] [According to the Manichæans, the divinely created and immortal soul is imprisoned in an alien and evil body. There can be no harmony between soul and body.]