Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 506

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§ 82.

THE INSTRUMENTS OF rNSPIRATION

from our consciousness

to the consciousness of others.

that entire series of communications which

there

is

lated

upon the eye

[Div. Ill

as the vehicle

;

all

is

First,

calcu-

object lessons, pictures,

the look of the eye, the changes of the facial expression, the

movements

of the body, the pointing to something, the

of a symbolical or illustrative act, etc.

To

doing

this is added, in

the second place, the strong impression of a deed, of a

repeated action, of the example.

And,

finally, in

the third

place, there enters here for our consideration, that varied

hypnotizing influence by which one is able to subject the But however broad our psychic life of the other to his will. nevertheless remains a purpose, it repertory may be for this

we have no power over the person himhave we the disposition of his lot. With God,

limited one, because self

;

neither

on the other hand, there is no such limitation. He can influence man by all the means that are present in his human Hence, for the composition and in his surrounding world. communication of His revelation, first of all He has the disposal of all the means that are at our service but also, in the second place, the human body and mind, and all increated capacities and powers, and the conditions in which one may None of these means may be taken as standing be placed. God dualistically outside of God and over against Him. it in existHimself formed our consciousness, and preserves All our nervous life is in ence from moment to moment. ;

Our imagination is a His hand and is His creature. Our language is lancapacity quickened in us by Him. guage wrought in us by Him. He gave us the susceptibility by our sense of sight. The mystical influwhich is shown by biology or hypnosis, of soul upon To soul, has been thought out by Him and realized in us. Avhich is added, moreover, that as our Creator He formed our personality and our disposition, approaches us in the root and centrum of our inner being, and can involve our life in all those events and experiences whose impression in us He Thus, in the fullest sense of the will use for His ends. word. He has the whole of man at His disposal and the world This leads of itself to the disin which He has placed man. for impressions

ence,

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