The Past Is Pregnant With The Present.

For Things Remain Possible, Even If God Does Not Choose Them. Indeed, Even If God Does Not Will Something To Exist, It Is Possible For It To Exist, Since, By Its Nature, It Could Exist If God Were To Will It To Exist.

We Never Have A Full Demonstration, Although There Is Always An Underlying Reason For The Truth, Even If It Is Only Perfectly Understood By God, Who Alone Penetrated The Infinite Series In One Stroke Of The Mind.

There Never Is Absolute Birth Nor Complete Death, In The Strict Sense, Consisting In The Separation Of The Soul From The Body. What We Call Births Are Developments And Growths, While What We Call Deaths Are Envelopments And Diminutions.

If We Were Magically Shrunk And Put Into Someone's Brain While She Was Thinking, We Would See All The Pumps, Pistons, Gears And Levers Working Away And We Would Be Able To Describe The Workings Completely, In Mechanical Terms, Thereby Completely Describing The Thought Processes Of The Brain. But That Description Would Not Contain Any Mention Of Thought! It Would Contain Nothing But Descriptions Of Pumps, Pistons, Levers!

What Is Is What Must Be.