Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 445

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CONNECTION WITH MIRACLES

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The undeniable fact, the spiritual and the material miracle. prominentl}-, is, that most appears connection this which in from the

daj'S of paradise till

now

the spiritual miracle of

palingenesis is ever unceasingly continued, and occurs in every land and among all people, while the sphere of the material miracle is limited and confined to time and place.

question of psychico-physical processes, which are often Whether the spoken of as miracles, is here passed by.

The

study of hypnotism will succeed in lifting the veil which still withholds from our sight the working of soul upon soul, and of the soul upon the body, time will tell; Init in any case it appears that in this domain, under definite circumstances, there are forces at

work which

find their cmisa causans in

our nature, and therefore do not belong to the category of With reference to the real miracle, on the other the miracle. hand, the Holy Scripture reveals to us that there is a palingenesis, not only of things invisible but also of things seen.

The Scripture nowhere separates the soul from the body, nor Psyche, body and world form the body from the cosmos. The body belongs to the real together one organic whole. and for human existTo the state of postulate. inseparable an ence the cosmos was the imwhich man, of existence that innocence, i.e. to only a holy not belonged mediate product of creation, there

existence of

man

as truly as his psyche,

is

but also a sound body and a glorious paradise. In the state of sin the unholiness of the psyche entails therefore the corruption of the body, and likewise brings the curse upon

soul,

the cosmos.

Even

as this organic connection of these three

elements appears both in the original creation and in the state of sin, it continues to

work

its effect

also in the re-creation.

with the psyche in regeneration, to the end in the palingenesis of operate to will continue but see itself placed in a re-created will the body, and this body If now regeneration concurse. cosmos delivered from the our psyche from every of sisted in a sudden cutting loose

Here

also the effect begins

were transformed at once into an absolutely holy psyche, not merely potentially, but actually, the palingenesis of the body would enter in at once, and if this

connection with

sin, so

that

it

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