This page has three parts: Independent Biblical Identification, Cross-Entry Synthesis, and Observation Notes.
07-1906-07-17 Biblical Resonance Analysis
Volume 7 — July 17, 1906 “To one who does the Will of God Jesus gives the key of His treasures, and there is no grace that comes from God in which she does not take part.”
STAGE ONE — INDEPENDENT BIBLICAL IDENTIFICATION
The Key of the Divine Will — Authority to Open and Close
“My daughter, this key is the key of my Will. It befits one who lives in my Will to have the key in order to open and close as she pleases, and to take whatever she likes of my treasures.”
Revelation 3:7 — “To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:” Christ’s self-identification as the holder of the key of David — the one who alone governs access to divine things — is the Christological ground for the key-granting here. The soul who lives in His Will receives what is intrinsic to Him: the authority over divine access. The “open and close as she pleases” of the diary entry directly mirrors the Apocalypse’s open/shut formula, transferred from Christ to the soul in His Will. Christological/Trinitarian
Isaiah 22:22 — “I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.” The Eliakim oracle is the Old Testament type that Revelation 3:7 explicitly draws on. Here the key is set upon a servant’s shoulder, granting him authority over the royal household’s treasures and access. The structure is identical: a delegated key-authority over the master’s house, given to one found worthy of stewardship. Typological
Matthew 16:19 — “I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.” The key-granting here is cognate to the keys-of-the-kingdom given to Peter, with the binding/loosing authority. The soul living in Divine Will receives what is structurally equivalent: authority to open and close within God’s own treasury. The parallel illuminates the ecclesial and vicarious dimension of the soul’s key-holding — it is exercised on behalf of others, just as Peter’s keys govern access for the whole Church. Direct doctrinal parallel
Revelation 1:18 — “and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.” Christ’s possession of all keys as cosmic ontological authority is the source from which the key-granting flows. To give the key of one’s Will is to share one’s own governing authority — a gesture of absolute trust and identification. Christological/Trinitarian
All That Is Mine Is Hers — Co-possession and Stewardship of Divine Treasures
“In fact, by living of my Will, she will look after my treasures more than if they were her own, because all that is Mine is hers, and she will not spoil them; rather, she will give them to others, or will take for herself whatever can give Me more honor and glory.”
John 17:10 — “All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.” The mutual-possession formula of the High-Priestly Prayer is the most direct scriptural parallel: Christ makes this declaration to the Father concerning the disciples, expressing the total interpenetration of possession between divine Persons and those who belong to Christ. The diary entry renders the same formula as a direct address from Christ to Luisa, now applied to the soul living in His Will. Direct doctrinal parallel
Luke 15:31 — “He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.” The father’s address to the elder son in the parable of the Prodigal is a near-exact parallel in structure: the one who has remained in the house is told that all the father’s goods belong to him. Christ’s statement to Luisa — “all that is Mine is hers” — follows the same logic: the interior dweller has unrestricted access to the household’s wealth precisely because of continuous cohabitation. Direct doctrinal parallel
1 Corinthians 3:21–23 — “Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours, and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.” The Pauline co-inheritance formula extends the possession to the entirety of reality. The soul who belongs to Christ in total consecration possesses all things through that belonging; here Luisa’s belonging is rendered as living in His Will, and the co-possession follows the same architecture. Direct doctrinal parallel
Living in the House of the Father — Paradise of His Will
“I felt all immersed in the Divine Will, so much so, that I could see nothing but Will of God, and I spent the whole day in this paradise of His Will. What happiness, what contentment!”
John 15:4 — “Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.” The mutual indwelling is the ground of living in Divine Will: the soul’s total immersion in the Will of God is the fullest realization of the Johannine abiding. The disappearance of everything except “Will of God” in Luisa’s perception corresponds to the mutual saturation of abiding — the soul sees only the Vine because she is wholly within it. Direct doctrinal parallel
Psalm 84:3–4 — “Yes, the sparrow has found a home, … Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you.” The dwelling-in-the-house motif as the source of unceasing praise and happiness. Luisa’s report of “happiness, contentment” lasting through day and night corresponds to the Psalmist’s testimony that the house-dweller overflows with praise — the joy is inseparable from the continuous dwelling. Affective/meditative
Psalm 23:6 — “Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the LORD’s house forever.” The terminus of the soul’s journey is dwelling in the Lord’s house — what Luisa experiences here as an ongoing reality across day and night. The “paradise of His Will” is the experiential content of what the Psalm names as the ultimate dwelling. Affective/meditative
First Participation in All Graces — The Interior Child as Primary Beneficiary
“For one who lives in my Will, there is no grace that comes from my Will for all creatures of Heaven and of earth in which she does not take part as first. And this is natural, because the one who lives in the house of a father is the one who abounds in everything; and if the others who are outside receive something, it is the surplus from the one who lives inside.”
Romans 8:14–17 (translation pending) — “For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God… you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons… heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ.” The sonship-by-adoption establishes inheritance rights. The soul living in Divine Will is the interior child — not merely adopted from outside but dwelling inside — and therefore the primary heir, the one who “abounds in everything.” The distinction between inside-child and outside-receiver corresponds to degrees within the Pauline inheritance structure. Direct doctrinal parallel
Romans 8:19 — “For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.” The grace flows through the manifest sons to “all creatures of Heaven and of earth” — Luisa’s phrase extends even beyond the human. The creation’s longing is satisfied through the ones who have entered the house; the soul in Divine Will is the first conduit of that satisfaction. Direct doctrinal parallel
Galatians 4:6–7 — “And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!” So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.” The heir-by-sonship motif: inheritance is consequent on adoption into the house. The soul living in Divine Will inhabits the house not as servant but as child-heir, with unrestricted access. Direct doctrinal parallel
John 1:12 — “But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:” The broader category of those who receive Christ gives them the right of children; the soul in Divine Will exercises that right at its maximum — dwelling inside rather than receiving from outside. Direct doctrinal parallel
The Soul as Benefactor of Surplus Grace to All Creation
“…if the others who are outside receive something, it is the surplus from the one who lives inside.”
2 Corinthians 9:8 — “And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.” The logic of grace-abounding: the one who receives in fullness overflows to good works for others. The soul in Divine Will receives all grace as “first,” and the surplus flows outward — a direct structural parallel. Direct doctrinal parallel
John 7:38 — “He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.” The interior indwelling produces outward overflow for all. The one living in the Divine Will, immersed in the house, becomes the source from whose abundance others drink — a precise image of “the surplus from the one who lives inside.” Direct doctrinal parallel
The Inexpressibility of Divine Understanding
“But who can say what I understood of this Divine Will? These are things that cannot be expressed. May everything be for the glory of God.”
1 Corinthians 2:9 — “But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.” The things Luisa understands in the Divine Will exceed the capacity of human sense and imagination; she knows more than she can express, which is precisely the situation Paul describes for the things God has prepared. Affective/meditative
2 Corinthians 12:4 (paraphrase) — Paul “heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.” The mystical inexpressibility topos appears at the highest Pauline register: the most elevated experiences of divine things are precisely those that resist verbal transmission. Luisa’s “these are things that cannot be expressed” is the same testimony. Affective/meditative
Romans 8:26 — “In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.” The limit of language at the divine threshold is here given pneumatological grounding: the Spirit’s own intercession exceeds articulation. The soul immersed in the Divine Will participates in that inexpressibility — what she understands is of a piece with what the Spirit groans. Affective/meditative
STAGE TWO — COMPARISON WITH HOGAN’S COMMENTARY
CORRESPONDENCES
- Romans 8:19 — Hogan cites “Romans 8:19” explicitly at the line about “all creatures of heaven and earth” receiving grace through the soul living in the Will. Stage One identified this as one of the sonship-inheritance anchors.
- Romans 8 broadly — Hogan repeatedly invokes “Romans 8 all over the place” for the interior-child / heirs material. Stage One identified Romans 8:14–17 as the governing anchor.
- 1 Corinthians 2:9 — Hogan cites this directly for Luisa’s inexpressibility statement. Stage One independently identified the same passage.
DEVIATIONS
No significant deviations. Hogan’s citations are at the same conceptual nodes as Stage One; the difference is one of density (Stage One fuller) and angle (see below).
ADDITIONS — MINE
- Revelation 3:7 — key of David, open/shut authority; the direct Christological source of the key-of-Divine-Will
- Isaiah 22:22 — Eliakim key-of-the-house typology; Old Testament ground for the delegated key-stewardship
- Revelation 1:18 — Christ holds all keys; key-granting as participation in his cosmic authority
- John 17:10 — “all that is mine is yours” mutual-possession formula from High-Priestly Prayer
- Luke 15:31 — “everything I have is yours” (elder son / interior child parallel)
- 1 Corinthians 3:21–23 — all things are yours in Christ; co-inheritance of the entirety of reality
- John 15:4 — abiding as the ground of total immersion in Divine Will
- Psalm 84:3–4 — dwelling in God’s house as the source of happiness and continuous praise
- Psalm 23:6 — dwelling in the house of the LORD as the soul’s terminal rest
- Galatians 4:6–7 — sons and heirs through adoption; unrestricted access as heir
- John 1:12 — right to become children of God as the baseline; soul in Divine Will exercises this at maximum
- 2 Corinthians 9:8 — grace abounding and overflowing to others through the one who receives in fullness
- John 7:38 — rivers of living water flowing out from the interior indwelling
- 2 Corinthians 12:4 — things heard that cannot be told; Pauline inexpressibility topos
- Romans 8:26 — groanings too deep for words; pneumatological grounding of inexpressibility
ADDITIONS — HERS
- Adamic restoration gloss: At the key-granting, Hogan adds: “Because that was what he wanted from Adam before the fall.” The key-of-Divine-Will treasures is explicitly situated as the restoration of the Adamic relation — Adam innocent had unrestricted access to the Father’s goods; the fall forfeited that access; the soul living in Divine Will recovers it. The implicit scriptural background is Genesis 2:15–16 (Adam’s dominion and free access to the garden) and Genesis 3:22–24 (loss of access through expulsion). This is the Adamic-restoration forward bridge becoming operative in the diary text.
- Substitution and reparation gloss: Hogan articulates the stewardship of divine treasures as the soul’s vocation of “substitution, reparation for everybody in the divine will, and that you look out for God’s honour and glory, and fill the voids that other people have left.” This gives CFA-1’s representative-soul mechanism its explicit vocation language. The implicit scriptural anchors are Colossians 1:24 and 2 Corinthians 5:14–15.
- Adoptive-children distinction: Hogan distinguishes between those outside who “are either the adoptive children of God, who may be doing the will of God but not living in the will of God, or people at a greater distance.” This is DWE-1’s interior/exterior distinction rendered at its most precise: doing the will versus living in the Will are categorically different states, with different inheritance positions. The implicit scriptural background is the difference between servant and son in John 15:15 and Galatians 4:1–7.
VIP / SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS
Hogan does not designate this entry as VIP. She opens with “terribly important to keep responding to him” as a general exhortation, not a VIP designation applied to this entry’s content.
STAGE TWO SYNTHESIS
The entry operates at the intersection of three theological traditions. The key-authority theology (Revelation 3:7; Isaiah 22:22; Matthew 16:19) frames the soul’s endowment as a delegated share in Christ’s own governing authority over divine access — a Christological transfer rendered personal and specific. The mutual-possession Christology (John 17:10; Luke 15:31; 1 Corinthians 3:21–23) establishes that this key-granting is the expression of a total co-possession: the soul has not merely been given a tool but has entered a relational state in which Christ’s goods are genuinely hers to steward. The sonship-inheritance theology (Romans 8:14–19; Galatians 4:6–7) supplies the structural logic of first-participation: the interior child is the primary heir, and all others receive from the overflow of the one who dwells inside. Hogan’s Adamic gloss adds the historical-theological depth: this is not a new arrangement but the recovery of what was forfeited at the fall — the DWE-1 Adamic-restoration register becomes explicitly activated by her commentary. The entry closes with the inexpressibility seal (1 Corinthians 2:9; 2 Corinthians 12:4), preserving the apophatic dimension of the mystical disclosure.
Cross-Entry Synthesis
Volume 7 — July 17, 1906 “To one who does the Will of God Jesus gives the key of His treasures, and there is no grace that comes from God in which she does not take part.”
The Key of the Divine Will — Delegated Authority Over Divine Access
The entry opens with a concrete visionary gift: Christ appears with a key, names it as the key of His Will, and transfers it to the soul who lives in that Will, granting her authority to open and close as she pleases and to take freely from His treasures. Stage One identified the primary scriptural architecture as Revelation 3:7 (the key of David: “opens and no one will shut, shuts and no one opens”) and its Old Testament type in Isaiah 22:22 (Eliakim given the key of the house of David as trusted steward). These two passages establish that the key-of-Divine-Will is not an arbitrary gift but a participation in Christ’s own governing authority over access to divine things — an authority that belongs to Him ontologically (Revelation 1:18: “I have the keys of Death and Hades”) and that He delegates to the one who has entered fully into His life. The Matthew 16:19 parallel (the keys of the kingdom given to Peter, with binding-and-loosing authority) situates the key-granting in an ecclesial and vicarious register: keys are always granted for the sake of others, not for private use. The soul in Divine Will receives authority to open and close — but her stewardship is directed toward others’ benefit and God’s honor and glory, a pattern the diary text itself makes explicit.
Hogan does not develop the key-authority theology scripturally, but her Adamic gloss deepens the entry’s historical resonance. The key-granting recovers what Adam forfeited: before the fall, Adam had unrestricted access to the Father’s goods (Genesis 2:15–16); expulsion from the garden was expulsion from that access (Genesis 3:22–24). The soul living in Divine Will is re-Adam, re-installed in the household with the key her hand. This activates the Adamic-restoration forward bridge that Hogan has been signaling since July 3 — the first explicit diary-text instantiation of what she has been naming as major higher-volume architecture. DWE-1 (Divine Will Exclusivity) is directly at work here: only the soul living in the Will, not merely doing it, receives the key. The exclusivity is the precondition of the authority.
All That Is Mine Is Hers — Co-possession and Stewardship
Christ’s declaration that “all that is Mine is hers” is the pivot of the entry’s first movement. Stage One identified three converging scriptural forms: John 17:10 (“all that is mine is yours, and yours is mine” — the High-Priestly Prayer’s mutual-possession formula extended from the Trinitarian life to the disciples), Luke 15:31 (“everything I have is yours” — the elder son who remained in the house is told he already possesses all the father’s goods), and 1 Corinthians 3:21–23 (“all things are yours… all are yours, and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s” — the Pauline co-inheritance formula in which total belonging to Christ produces total possession of reality). These three passages approach the same reality from different angles: John 17:10 from the Trinitarian register, Luke 15:31 from the parabolic-relational register, 1 Corinthians 3 from the soteriological. Together they establish that “all that is Mine is hers” is not a pious hyperbole but a precise theological claim rooted in the deepest structures of divine self-sharing.
The stewardship condition is theologically significant: the soul in Divine Will will not spoil the treasures, will give them to others, and will take for herself only what gives God more honor and glory. Hogan articulates this as “substitution, reparation for everybody in the divine will… filling the voids that other people have left, because they’re not giving him the honour and glory.” This is CFA-1 (Complete Filial Acts for All) rendered in its most explicit stewardship form: the representative soul within the house holds the treasures not for herself but as a distributor on behalf of all. CFA-1 opened at April 26 with the soul in Divine Will rendering to God the complete catalogue of all acts owed by every creature; July 17 extends that movement into the treasury register — the soul also distributes outward from the abundance she holds.
Living in the House of the Father — Paradise of His Will
The experiential dimension of the entry — Luisa spending “the whole day in this paradise of His Will,” feeling “all immersed in the Divine Will, so much so, that I could see nothing but Will of God” — is continuous with a cluster of scriptural dwelling-in-the-house traditions. John 15:4 (“abide in me, and I in you”) names the mutual indwelling as the ground of all fruit-bearing; Luisa’s total immersion, in which nothing remains visible except the Will, is the consummated form of this abiding. Psalm 84:3–4 (“Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you”) and Psalm 23:6 (“I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever”) supply the experiential vocabulary: happiness, contentment, unceasing communion — the interior life of one who no longer visits but inhabits.
The “paradise of His Will” phrase carries DWE-1’s paradise register, most fully developed at July 3 where “living in my Will” was named as paradise in an exclusive relational sense. July 17 confirms and deepens that register: the paradise is not a reward at the end of life but the present experiential condition of the soul immersed in the Will. The continuity through day and night — “during the night, as I found myself outside of myself, I continued to be in this atmosphere” — presses toward permanence, which is the interior logic of DWE-1’s exclusivity: once the soul inhabits the Will, the habitation does not lift with consciousness.
First Participation in All Graces — Interior Child and Surplus Distribution
The doctrinal center of the entry’s second movement is the claim that the soul living in Divine Will participates first in every grace that flows from the Divine Will to “all creatures of Heaven and of earth,” and that others receive “the surplus from the one who lives inside.” This is the most structurally complete statement of the representative-soul-as-primary-beneficiary in Volume 7 to this point.
Stage One and Hogan converge on Romans 8 as the governing scriptural ground. Romans 8:14–17 (sonship by the Spirit, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ) establishes the inheritance category; Romans 8:19 (creation waiting for the revealing of the sons of God) extends the scope of that inheritance to “all creatures” — which matches Luisa’s explicit “all creatures of Heaven and of earth,” including non-human creation in a way unusual even for this corpus. Hogan notes this scope explicitly: “four-legged, 10-legged, 100-legged, two-winged, one-winged, whatever.” The revelation of the sons of God is the moment when the surplus begins to flow; the soul in Divine Will is the son already revealed, already distributing.
Galatians 4:6–7 (sons and heirs through the Spirit of the Son) and John 1:12 (the right to become children of God) bracket the interior-child position from above and below: the right of children given to all who receive Christ is exercised at its maximum by the soul living in His Will, and that maximum exercise is interior habitation rather than exterior adoption. Hogan’s adoptive-children distinction is the commentary that makes this explicit: “the adoptive children of God, who may be doing the will of God but not living in the will of God” receive from outside — which means the difference between doing and living is a structural difference in one’s position relative to the treasury, not merely a difference of degree. This is DWE-1’s interior/exterior logic at its sharpest.
The surplus-distribution mechanism is grounded by 2 Corinthians 9:8 (grace abounding so that the one who receives in fullness may abound in every good work for others) and John 7:38 (rivers of living water flowing out from the interior indwelling). Together these passages establish that the overflow is not accidental but intrinsic: the one in the house becomes the distribution point. CFA-1 opened in April as the soul’s representative act of rendering complete filial tribute; July 17 shows the inverse movement — not the soul bringing all upward to God, but the soul receiving all from God and distributing outward to creation. The two movements are the two poles of the same representative function.
The Inexpressibility Seal
Luisa’s closing — “But who can say what I understood of this Divine Will? These are things that cannot be expressed. May everything be for the glory of God” — is the entry’s apophatic close. Stage One identified three forms: 1 Corinthians 2:9 (what no eye has seen nor ear heard, what God has prepared for those who love him — Hogan’s citation), 2 Corinthians 12:4 (things heard in mystical rapture that cannot be told), and Romans 8:26 (the Spirit’s own intercession in groanings too deep for words). These three passages together establish that the inexpressibility is not a failure of language but a property of the things themselves: they belong to the register of divine preparation (1 Corinthians 2:9), mystical disclosure (2 Corinthians 12:4), and pneumatological depth (Romans 8:26). Luisa’s understanding of the Divine Will exceeds her transmission capacity — but the Pauline tradition establishes that this excess is the mark of genuine divine encounter, not mystical vagueness.
Synthesis
The dominant biblical imagination of July 17 is the theology of the interior child: one who dwells in the Father’s house, holds the key to its treasuries, possesses all things through co-possession with Christ, participates first in all grace, and distributes the surplus to all creation. This imagination is woven from the Johannine abiding tradition (John 15:4; 17:10), the Pauline inheritance tradition (Romans 8:14–19; Galatians 4:6–7; 1 Corinthians 3:21–23), and the Luisian/Apocalyptic key tradition (Revelation 3:7; Isaiah 22:22).
The three findings carrying the most theological significance for the BRA project are:
First, the Adamic-restoration activation. Hogan’s gloss (“that was what he wanted from Adam before the fall”) makes July 17 the first explicit diary-text instantiation of the Adamic-restoration forward bridge — the key-of-Divine-Will treasures as recovery of Adam’s pre-lapsarian unrestricted access. This is a DWE-1 development of the first order, and confirms that the Adamic register Hogan has been naming since July 3 is now entering the diary text’s own frame.
Second, the CFA-1 surplus-distribution mechanism. The first-participation-in-all-graces doctrine, with the explicit formulation of others receiving “the surplus from the one who lives inside,” is the most structurally complete expression of CFA-1’s representative-soul function in Volume 7 to date. April 26 showed the soul bringing all upward to God; July 17 shows the soul distributing all outward to creation — completing the bidirectional arc of the representative-soul vocation.
Third, the key-series continuation. July 3 gave the key-of-divine-secrets as the master-key of a series running across early volumes; July 17 gives the key-of-the-Will’s-treasures as a further key in that series. Hogan notes “we’re going to get another key” — suggesting the series is progressing visibly enough to track. The key-series forward bridge is becoming an active pattern, not merely a prospective one.
Observation Notes
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07-1906-07-17
DWE-1 — Adamic-restoration forward bridge activated in diary text: July 17 is the first entry in which the Adamic-restoration register enters the diary text itself rather than remaining in Hogan’s prospective commentary. The key-of-Divine-Will-treasures granting is the mechanism: Hogan’s gloss (“that was what he wanted from Adam before the fall”) situates the key as recovery of Adam innocent’s unrestricted access to the Father’s goods, with Genesis 2:15–16 and Genesis 3:22–24 as implicit scriptural background. DWE-1’s Adamic-restoration register, opened by Hogan’s commentary at July 3 and July 10, is now substantiated by the diary text’s own key-granting structure.
CFA-1 — Surplus-distribution arc completes the representative-soul mechanism: April 26 established the upward pole of CFA-1: the soul renders to God the complete catalogue of all filial acts owed by every creature. July 17 establishes the outward pole: the soul participates first in all grace that flows from the Divine Will, and all others receive “the surplus from the one who lives inside.” The bidirectional arc of the representative-soul vocation is now formally complete in Volume 7: upward tribute (April 26) + outward distribution (July 17). Romans 8:14–19 and 2 Corinthians 9:8 are the governing anchors for the distribution movement.
Key-series forward bridge — second key in close succession: July 3 gave the key-of-divine-secrets as the entry point to a series of keys given across early volumes (Hogan’s forward bridge). July 17 gives the key-of-the-Will’s-treasures, with Hogan opening her commentary: “we’re going to get another key.” The close succession of July 3 and July 17 suggests the key-series is an active pattern within Volume 7, not merely a higher-volume construct. Watching for further key-granting entries.