44. Confessions X111, 4, 5 (CCL 27, 244); Boulding, 345.
22 On Genesis turning to the creator, by contemplating God, by praising the light which God is, does the creature achieve its true form and become in fact that which it ought to be according to God's plan,43 but which it can become only through a free choice. As the author of the Confessions puts it, the creature has but one choice: "of being converted to him who made it, so that it may live more and more fully on the fount of life, and in his light see light, and so be perfected, illumined, and beatified."44
43. See ibid., 1V, 22, 39. 44. Confessions X111, 4, 5 (CCL 27, 244); Boulding, 345.
On Genesis: A Refutation of the Manichees
