Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 94

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§ 39.

object

ORGANIC RELATION

and our consciousness.

organic relation

is

As

[Div. II

soon, however, as this

established, for external reasons the per-

ception and the observation

may

be retarded or prevented,

but the possibility is still present of having the object enter into our consciousness. This organic relation has mistakenly been sought in the socalled "faculty of feeling."

But

there

is

no room

for this

third faculty in coordination with the faculties of the under-

standing and the will (facultas intelligendi and volendi). capacity taken in the sense oi facultas is of its own nature

A

always active, while in the case of the entering in of objects into our consciousness we may be passive. Oftentimes we fail entirely in withdrawing ourselves from what we do not want to hear or see or smell. This objection is not set aside by distinguishing perception and observation from each other as two heterogeneous facts. If I examine a thing purposely, or see it involuntarily, in each case the entirely self-same organic relation exists, with this difference only, that with intentional observation our intellect and our will cooperate in this relation. In which instance it is our ego which knows the possibility of the relation to the object; which desires this relation to exist in a given

and which realizes the relation by the exercise of the Hence there can be no question of an active faculty that shall operate independently of the intellect and the will. The fact is simply this. There are lines of comcase ;

will.

munication that can bring the object outside of us in relation And these lines of communication are of an organic nature, for the reason that with our physical growth they develop of themselves, and with a finer forming of our personality they assume of themselves a finer character. The nature of these organic relations depends of course entirely upon the nature of the object with which they are to bring us into communion. If this object belongs to the to our ego.

material world, these conductors must be partly material,

such

as, for instance, in

nerves.

If the object,

terial, these relations

sight the waves of light and our

on the other hand,

must exhibit

is

entirely

imma-

a directly spiritual nature.

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