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This page has three parts: Independent Biblical Identification, Cross-Entry Synthesis, and Observation Notes.
02-1899-08-12 Biblical Resonance Analysis
STAGE ONE — INDEPENDENT BIBLICAL IDENTIFICATION
The Total Conformity: Jesus Uniting His Senses to Luisa’s
“My daughter, this morning I want to conform you completely to Myself. I want you to think with my own mind, look with my own eyes, listen with my own ears, speak with my own tongue, operate with my own hands, walk with my own feet, and love with my own Heart.”
Galatians 2:20 — “I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.” The total conformity Jesus describes — every faculty unified with his own — is the Pauline mystical indwelling at its fullest extension. Galatians 2:20 names the general principle; August 12 specifies it faculty by faculty: mind, eyes, ears, tongue, hands, feet, heart. The entry is an enacted exegesis of the Pauline text. Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
1 Corinthians 2:16 — “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.” “Think with my own mind” is the Pauline “we have the mind of Christ” applied individually and intensively. Paul states it as a corporate possession of the community; Jesus here applies it as a specific gift to Luisa, extending it from mind alone to all the faculties. Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
Philippians 2:5 — “Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,” The exhortation to have the mind of Christ — the grounding invitation before the Christological hymn — is the Pauline parallel for Jesus’s opening desire: “I want you to think with my own mind.” The Pauline imperative becomes a mystical gift. Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
Romans 12:4–5 — “For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,” The members of the body sharing in the body’s life — each functioning within the corporate whole — provides the ecclesial-level parallel for the individual faculty-by-faculty union. Jesus uniting his senses to Luisa’s is the intensive concentration of what Paul describes as the normal condition of those in the body of Christ. Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
2 Corinthians 3:18 — “But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.” The progressive transformation into the same image — “given his own shape” — is the Pauline process that reaches its apex in this vision. The shape Jesus gives Luisa is the image of Christ that 2 Corinthians 3:18 names as the destination of the transformative beholding. Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
Colossians 3:10 — “and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,” The new self renewed after the image of the Creator is the Colossian parallel for the conformity Jesus effects in Luisa. The image given is not merely imposed but operative — she receives “the grace to make use of it as He Himself did.” Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
Psalm 17:15 — “As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.” The Psalmist’s satisfaction in the divine likeness is the anticipatory register of Luisa’s experience. The conformity is not merely eschatological but present — she receives the divine shape now, as a foretaste of the final likeness. Type: Affective/meditative.
The Fear of Misusing Grace: Humility Before the Gift
“I fear very much, O my beloved Jesus, in knowing myself all full of misery, that instead of doing good, I may make bad use of your graces.”
1 Corinthians 9:27 — “but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.” Paul’s fear of disqualification despite apostolic ministry is the Pauline register of Luisa’s fear of misusing grace. The one who has received the most remains vulnerable to failing in the very gifts given. Type: Affective/meditative.
2 Corinthians 6:1 — “Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.” The Pauline warning against receiving grace in vain is the doctrinal ground of Luisa’s fear. Grace given does not automatically produce good; it requires faithful reception and use. Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
The Tongue in Charity: The Two Rules for Speaking of the Neighbor
“First: when you are told something about your neighbor, cast a gaze upon yourself and observe whether you are guilty of that same defect… Second: if you see yourself free of that defect, rise then, and try to speak as I would have; in this way you will speak with my own tongue.”
Matthew 7:1–5 — “judge, so that you won’t be judged. … Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?” The first rule — “cast a gaze upon yourself and observe whether you are guilty of that same defect” — is a direct application of the plank/speck teaching. The self-examination Jesus prescribes before any correction is exactly the removal of the plank before attending to the speck. Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
Galatians 6:1 — “Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.” Paul’s instruction for restoring the fallen explicitly includes self-watchfulness — “keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.” This is the second rule’s preparatory condition (freedom from the defect) combined with the gentleness of spirit in which correction is offered. Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
James 3:2–10 — “For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, … the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity … mankind; but nobody can tame the tongue.” James’s extended meditation on the tongue is the scriptural backdrop for Luisa’s specific fear: “my tongue that oftentimes makes me slip in charity toward my neighbor.” The tongue is the faculty most requiring the divine conformity Jesus offers; it is precisely the tongue Jesus addresses in both rules. Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
Proverbs 18:21 — “Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.” The tongue’s power of life and death is the sapiential ground of the stakes involved in speaking about the neighbor. The two rules are the practical wisdom for wielding the tongue toward life rather than death. Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
Ephesians 4:15 — “but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,” “Speaking the truth in love” is the Pauline synthesis of what the two rules accomplish: truth (the second rule’s freedom from the defect produces honesty) offered in love (the spirit of Jesus’s own tongue). Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
Colossians 4:6 — “Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.” The instruction to speech that is gracious and calibrated — adapted to the particular person — corresponds to the second rule’s “try to speak as I would have.” Speaking with Jesus’s tongue produces exactly the speech Paul describes. Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
Leviticus 19:17 — “‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.” The Torah’s instruction on fraternal correction — reason frankly, lest you sin by silence — is the Old Testament ground for the two-rule structure. Correction is obligatory, but its mode is determined by the self-examination the first rule requires. Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
Romans 2:1–3 (translation pending) — “Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.” The first rule’s logic — if you share the defect, you condemn yourself by judging — is the Pauline structural argument exactly. Self-condemnation is embedded in the judgment of the neighbor who shares your fault. Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
The Fruit of the Two Rules: Mutual Good and Divine Glory
“With your words, you will do good to yourself and to your neighbor — and to Me you will give honor and glory.”
1 John 4:7 — “Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.” The charity toward the neighbor that the two rules protect — “you will never fail in charity” — is the Johannine love that flows from God and returns to God. Speech governed by the two rules is speech shaped by the divine love that is Jesus’s own gift. Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
Matthew 5:16 — “Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” “To Me you will give honor and glory” through speech that obeys the two rules corresponds to the Matthean logic: charitable speech as the good works that render glory to the Father. Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
Romans 15:2 — “Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.” “You will do good to yourself and to your neighbor” is the Pauline oikodome principle applied to speech. Charitable correction builds rather than destroys. Type: Direct doctrinal parallel.
STAGE TWO — COMPARISON WITH HOGAN’S COMMENTARY
CORRESPONDENCES
- Galatians 2:20 — Hogan cites explicitly for the total conformity. Strong shared anchor.
- 1 John 4:7 — Hogan opens with this for the charity/divine love frame. Strong shared anchor.
- Proverbs 18:21 — Hogan references the Proverbs tongue-teachings explicitly. Shared.
- James 3 — Hogan cites “James chapter four” (likely 3–4) for the tongue. Stage One identified James 3:2–10. Shared.
- Matthew 7:1–5 — Hogan cites explicitly for the two rules. Shared.
DEVIATIONS
- Hogan’s VIP designation isolates “he gave me the grace to make use of it as He Himself did” — the operative dimension. Stage One identified 2 Corinthians 3:18 and Colossians 3:10 for the conformity-and-use dynamic but did not separately elevate the operative dimension. Hogan’s precision here is more theologically acute.
- Hogan frames the tongue teaching primarily through James and Proverbs; Stage One additionally found Galatians 6:1, Ephesians 4:15, Colossians 4:6, Leviticus 19:17, and Romans 2:1–3 as the fuller doctrinal architecture.
ADDITIONS — MINE
- 1 Corinthians 2:16 — “We have the mind of Christ” — Pauline parallel for “think with my own mind.”
- Philippians 2:5 — “Have this mind which is yours in Christ Jesus” — imperative becoming mystical gift.
- Romans 12:4–5 — Members in the body sharing the body’s life — ecclesial parallel for faculty union.
- 2 Corinthians 3:18 — Progressive transformation into the same image — process reaching its apex.
- Colossians 3:10 — New self renewed after the image of the Creator.
- Psalm 17:15 — Satisfaction in the divine likeness — anticipatory Psalmic register.
- 1 Corinthians 9:27 — Fear of disqualification despite gifts — Pauline register of Luisa’s humility.
- 2 Corinthians 6:1 — “Not to receive the grace of God in vain” — doctrinal ground of Luisa’s fear.
- Galatians 6:1 — Restoring the fallen with self-watchfulness — second rule’s preparatory condition.
- Ephesians 4:15 — “Speaking the truth in love” — Pauline synthesis of the two rules.
- Colossians 4:6 — Speech gracious and seasoned — Pauline form of speaking with Jesus’s tongue.
- Leviticus 19:17 — Fraternal correction in the Torah — Old Testament ground for the two-rule structure.
- Romans 2:1–3 — Self-condemnation embedded in judging the one who shares your fault — first rule’s Pauline logic.
- Matthew 5:16 — Good works rendering glory to the Father — parallel for “to Me you will give honor and glory.”
- Romans 15:2 — Oikodome / building up the neighbor through speech.
ADDITIONS — HERS
- Formal VIP designation — Hogan marks “he gave me the grace to make use of it as He Himself did” as the VIP. The elevation isolates the operative dimension of conformity: not the identification itself but the granted ability to use the divine faculties as Jesus used them. This is the entry’s most theologically consequential claim.
- “50 proverbs on the tongue” — Hogan’s observation situates the two rules within a larger sapiential tradition of speech-ethics, signaling that they are the crystallization of the entire Wisdom tradition’s teaching on speech.
- Charity as divine love (1 John 4:7) — Hogan’s identification of charity with divine love frames the two rules not as social etiquette but as expressions of the divine love that is Jesus’s own Being, now extended through the conformed soul’s tongue.
VIP / SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS
Formal VIP: Hogan explicitly designates “he gave me the grace to make use of it as He Himself did” as the VIP. The operative grace — not merely the conformity but the ability to use the divine faculties as Jesus used them — is the entry’s most consequential claim.
STAGE TWO SYNTHESIS
Five shared anchors (Galatians 2:20, 1 John 4:7, Proverbs 18:21, James 3, Matthew 7:1–5) with a formal VIP designation on the operative grace. Stage One’s most significant additions are the faculty-by-faculty Pauline infrastructure (1 Corinthians 2:16, Philippians 2:5, 2 Corinthians 3:18) and the full doctrinal architecture of the two rules (Galatians 6:1, Ephesians 4:15, Romans 2:1–3, Leviticus 19:17). Hogan’s most significant contribution is the VIP designation and its precision: the conformity without operative grace would be a static identification; the operative grace makes Luisa an active participant in Jesus’s own mode of action.
CROSS-ENTRY SYNTHESIS
The Total Conformity: Faculty by Faculty
“I want you to think with my own mind, look with my own eyes, listen with my own ears, speak with my own tongue, operate with my own hands, walk with my own feet, and love with my own Heart.”
The faculty-by-faculty enumeration is the entry’s most structurally distinctive feature. Galatians 2:20 — confirmed by both — names the general principle; August 12 unpacks it into specific components: the intellective faculties (mind, eyes, ears), the expressive faculties (tongue, hands, feet), and the affective center (heart). The enumeration is a claim that the conformity reaches every dimension of the human person — nothing held back, nothing excluded.
1 Corinthians 2:16’s “we have the mind of Christ” provides the Pauline ground for the intellective conformity. Philippians 2:5’s invitation becomes a mystical gift. 2 Corinthians 3:18’s progressive transformation is the process of which August 12 is the concentrated instance; Colossians 3:10’s new self renewed after the image of the Creator names what the shape given to Luisa is.
Hogan’s VIP correctly isolates the operative dimension: not merely shaped like Jesus but enabled to use the divine faculties as Jesus used them. Romans 12:4–5’s members of the body, each functioning within the body’s life, provides the ecclesial parallel: the conformity is the intensive concentration of what the body of Christ normally possesses.
The Fear of Misusing Grace
“I fear very much… in knowing myself all full of misery, that instead of doing good, I may make bad use of your graces.”
Theologically correct rather than merely pious anxiety. 2 Corinthians 6:1’s “not to receive the grace of God in vain” establishes the genuine possibility of grace without fruit. 1 Corinthians 9:27’s Paul fearing his own disqualification — despite apostolic ministry — is the Pauline register of the same. This humility is the August 7 annihilation-dynamic in its practical form: recognition of nothingness not overcome by gifts but deepened by them.
The Tongue in Charity: The Two Rules
“First: cast a gaze upon yourself… Second: if you see yourself free of that defect, rise then, and try to speak as I would have.”
The two rules are the total conformity applied specifically to speech. The first rule applies Matthew 7:1–5’s plank-and-speck logic operationally: before attending to the neighbor’s defect, examine whether you share it. Romans 2:1–3 provides the structural logic: the judge who practices the same things condemns himself in the act of judgment.
The second rule applies the total conformity of the opening vision to the act of speech: having been given Jesus’s tongue, use it as Jesus used it — with the charity that 1 John 4:7 names as God’s very nature. Galatians 6:1’s “restore in gentleness, keeping watch on yourself” is the Pauline form of both rules simultaneously. James 3:2–10 — confirmed by Hogan — names the stakes: the tongue is the faculty most dangerous to charity and most in need of divine conformity. Ephesians 4:15’s “speaking the truth in love” is the Pauline synthesis of what the two rules produce: truth (second rule’s freedom from defect) offered in love (the spirit of Jesus’s own tongue). Leviticus 19:17’s fraternal correction instruction establishes the obligation; the two rules specify its conditions.
The Fruit: Mutual Good and Divine Glory
“With your words, you will do good to yourself and to your neighbor — and to Me you will give honor and glory.”
The fruit is threefold: self-knowledge and humility (first rule), building up the neighbor (Romans 15:2’s oikodome), and glory to Jesus (Matthew 5:16’s light shining before others). 1 John 4:7 — Hogan’s opening frame — encompasses all three: speech shaped by divine love flows from God and returns to God.
Entry Conclusion
Dominant biblical imagination: The Pauline mystical union tradition (Galatians 2:20, 1 Corinthians 2:16, 2 Corinthians 3:18) for the total conformity; the Sapiential-Pauline tradition of speech ethics (James 3, Proverbs 18:21, Ephesians 4:15, Matthew 7:1–5) for the two rules; and the Johannine love-theology (1 John 4:7) framing the whole.
Most load-bearing scriptural traditions: Galatians 2:20 as the foundational Pauline ground; 1 Corinthians 2:16 and 2 Corinthians 3:18 for the operative conformity; Matthew 7:1–5 and Galatians 6:1 for the two rules; 1 John 4:7 as the love-theology frame.
Three findings of highest theological significance:
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Hogan’s VIP designation correctly isolates the entry’s most consequential claim: the operative grace to use the divine faculties as Jesus used them. This elevates the conformity from a state to an activity — Luisa is not merely shaped like Jesus but enabled to act as Jesus acts. The 36 volumes are themselves the exercise of this operative grace, which is why this VIP carries weight beyond the individual entry.
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The faculty-by-faculty enumeration is a complete anthropology of the human person ordered entirely to Christ. No faculty is reserved; none operates independently. This is an implicit critique of any spirituality that confines the divine conformity to the interior life while leaving the expressive faculties unreformed.
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The two rules for the tongue integrate the July 30 teaching (looking = judging; redirect the gaze inward) with the August 10 teaching (justice-truth-simplicity as participated divine qualities) into a single practical framework. Self-examination before correction (first rule) is July 30 applied; speaking as Jesus would (second rule) is the justice-truth-simplicity chain of August 10 applied to speech. The August sequence continues to develop self-consistently.
Cross-Entry Synthesis
Entry: August 12, 1899 Theme: Jesus transforms her completely in Himself, and teaches her Charity Audio: 02-06.mp3 (00:13:08–00:16:59)
Hogan Commentary Summary
Hogan subtitles the entry “Jesus transforms Luisa completely into himself and teaches her charity or divine love,” grounding the frame immediately in 1 John 4:7 (“God is love”). The total conformity — mind, eyes, ears, tongue, hands, feet, heart — is treated as “complete identification,” with Galatians 2:20 (“I no longer live, Christ lives in me”) as its anchor.
The formal VIP is marked explicitly: “Not only was she made like him, but she was given the grace and the ability to actually use it — and use it in the same way that Jesus did.” Hogan’s precision isolates the operative dimension as the entry’s most consequential claim: conformity without operative grace would be a static identification; the granted ability to act as Jesus acts makes Luisa an active participant in the divine mode of operation.
On the tongue-teaching, Hogan notes that the book of Proverbs contains approximately fifty proverbs on the tongue alone (referencing Proverbs 18:21 — “there is life and death in the power of the tongue”), cites James 4 (likely chapters 3–4) on the tongue’s dangers, and Matthew 7:1–5 for the two rules on speaking about the neighbor. She closes with the pastoral observation that the second rule — speaking as Jesus would — requires praying hard for wisdom before attempting to correct the neighbor.
Citations — Hogan
| Scripture | Context |
|---|---|
| 1 John 4:7 | ”God is love” — charity as divine love; frame for the entire entry |
| Galatians 2:20 | ”I no longer live, Christ lives in me” — total conformity anchor |
| Proverbs 18:21 | ”Death and life in the power of the tongue” — sapiential stakes of tongue-teaching |
| James 3–4 | Extended tongue meditation — backdrop for Luisa’s fear about the tongue |
| Matthew 7:1–5 | Plank and speck — two rules for speaking about the neighbor |
Citations — Stage One (not in Hogan)
| Scripture | Concept |
|---|---|
| 1 Corinthians 2:16 | ”We have the mind of Christ” — Pauline parallel for “think with my own mind” |
| Philippians 2:5 | ”Have this mind which is yours in Christ Jesus” — imperative becoming mystical gift |
| Romans 12:4–5 | Members sharing the body’s life — ecclesial parallel for faculty-by-faculty union |
| 2 Corinthians 3:18 | Progressive transformation into the same image — process reaching its apex |
| Colossians 3:10 | New self renewed after the image of the Creator |
| Psalm 17:15 | Satisfaction in the divine likeness — anticipatory Psalmic register |
| 1 Corinthians 9:27 | Fear of disqualification despite gifts — Pauline register of Luisa’s humility |
| 2 Corinthians 6:1 | ”Not to receive the grace of God in vain” — doctrinal ground of Luisa’s fear |
| Galatians 6:1 | Restore in gentleness, keeping watch on yourself — both rules simultaneously |
| Ephesians 4:15 | ”Speaking the truth in love” — Pauline synthesis of the two rules |
| Colossians 4:6 | Speech gracious and seasoned — Pauline form of speaking with Jesus’s tongue |
| Leviticus 19:17 | Fraternal correction in the Torah — Old Testament ground for the two-rule structure |
| Romans 2:1–3 | Self-condemnation embedded in judging the one who shares your fault — first rule’s logic |
| Matthew 5:16 | Good works rendering glory to the Father — “to Me you will give honor and glory” |
| Romans 15:2 | Oikodome / building up the neighbor through speech |
Theological Arc
A formally VIP-designated entry with five shared anchors and the highest operative significance in the August sequence so far. Three theological movements: (1) total conformity faculty by faculty — mind, eyes, ears, tongue, hands, feet, heart — grounded in Galatians 2:20 and the Pauline image-renewal tradition, with the VIP isolating the operative grace to use the divine faculties as Jesus used them; (2) Luisa’s humility before the gift — fear of misusing grace, grounded in 2 Corinthians 6:1 and the Pauline self-discipline tradition; (3) the two rules for the tongue — the total conformity applied specifically to the faculty most prone to charity-violation, integrating the July 30 anti-judgment teaching (first rule: cast the gaze on yourself first) with the August 10 justice-truth-simplicity chain (second rule: speak as Jesus would). The entry continues and deepens the August theology of the soul as divine theater: the soul that has been conformed to Christ becomes the operative agent of his action in the world, wielding his own faculties for the good of the neighbor and the glory of God.
Observation Notes
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02-1899-08-12
One thing the actual transcript clarifies: Hogan’s audio cuts off mid-entry at 16:49 with “that takes a lot of wisdom — we’d have to pray hard for wisdom before you would think of correcting your neighbor.” The commentary is notably brief relative to the entry’s density, which means the faculty-by-faculty conformity and most of the two-rules teaching received less development from Hogan than the entry warrants. This makes the Stage One additions (the full Pauline faculty-infrastructure and the doctrinal architecture of the two rules) correspondingly more important for the record — they fill the gap that the abbreviated commentary leaves.
Hogan’s VIP is the most precisely placed formal elevation in the volume so far. The distinction she draws is theologically exact: conformity to Christ is broadly attested across Christian mystical theology (Teresa, John of the Cross, various patristic sources); what is distinctive in this entry is the operative grace — the soul is not merely shaped like Christ but enabled to act as Christ acted. Hogan is right to mark this rather than the conformity itself. The 36 volumes of the Book of Heaven are themselves the exercise of this operative grace: every vision, every teaching, every intercession Luisa records is the conformed soul using Jesus’s faculties in the way Jesus used them.
The faculty-by-faculty enumeration is quietly a complete theological anthropology. Mind, eyes, ears (the receptive/intellective faculties), tongue, hands, feet (the expressive/active faculties), heart (the affective center) — together they constitute the whole person, and Jesus claims all of them. There is nothing in the human person that stands outside the conformity. This has an implicit polemical edge against any spirituality that reserves the interior life for God while treating the expressive faculties as morally neutral terrain. The Luisian anthropology has no such reservation.
The integration of July 30 and August 10 in the two rules is the clearest internal cross-referencing in the volume yet. The first rule (cast the gaze on yourself first) is July 30’s anti-judgment teaching — looking at the neighbor is already judging — now given a positive application: redirect the gaze inward before speaking. The second rule (speak as Jesus would) is the August 10 justice-truth-simplicity chain applied to the specific faculty of the tongue. The August sequence is not a collection of separate teachings but a single developing argument about the soul’s conformity to Christ across every dimension of action, worked out step by step over the course of the month.
The tongue as the chosen faculty for this teaching is not incidental. Of all the faculties enumerated in the opening vision, Jesus specifically addresses the tongue in the didactic section that follows. This is consistent with James 3’s assessment that the tongue is the faculty most impossible to tame without divine help — and it places the Luisian charism in a particular light: if the Book of Heaven is itself the exercise of Jesus’s tongue through Luisa’s, then the entire project is a sustained demonstration of what it looks like when the human tongue is operated by the divine conformity rather than by the creaturely self.