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This page has three parts: Independent Biblical Identification, Cross-Entry Synthesis, and Observation Notes.
14-1922-05-27 Biblical Resonance Analysis
Volume 14 — May 27, 1922 “The prevenient act and the actual act.”
Stage One — Independent Biblical Identification
The Prevenient Act: Morning Consecration and Anticipatory Fiat
“The prevenient act is when the soul, at the first rising of the day, fixes her will in Mine, and decides and confirms that she wants to live and operate only in my Volition. She anticipates all of her acts and makes them all flow in my Will.”
Mark 1:35 — “Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.” The Christological prototype of the prevenient act: before any activity of the day begins, the will is oriented entirely to the Father in solitary prayer. What Jesus does as the natural expression of His Sonship, the prevenient act establishes structurally in the DW soul. typological
Psalm 5:3 — “LORD, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.” The morning orientation of the entire self toward God before the day begins — the prevenient act in its Psalmic form. affective/meditative
Psalm 57:8 — “Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp! I will wake up the dawn.” The soul deliberately stirring itself to consecration at the very first light — anticipating the day through an act of interior waking rather than merely opening to what the day brings. affective/meditative
Romans 12:1 — “Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.” The total self-offering as living sacrifice corresponds structurally to the prevenient act: the soul offers all her acts in anticipation, making them flow in the Will before any individual act occurs. The prevenient act is the daily enactment of the total offering Romans 12:1 names. direct doctrinal parallel
Hebrews 11:1 — “Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.” The prevenient act operates in the mode of faith: the soul “anticipates all of her acts” before they exist, fixing her will in the divine Will on the assurance that all that follows will be governed by it. The prevenient act is faith applied to the totality of one’s daily life before it unfolds. direct doctrinal parallel
Philippians 2:13 — “For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.” The prevenient act is the creaturely side of this divine-creaturely synergy: God works in the soul “to will,” and the soul at the first rising confirms and fixes that worked will in His. direct doctrinal parallel
The Sun Rising / Life Duplicated in All Acts
“With the prevenient will, my Sun rises, my Life remains duplicated in all of her acts, as though in one single act.”
Malachi 4:2 — “But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.” The messianic sun rising for those who honor the divine name: the prevenient act, which is the soul’s morning act of revering and fixing herself in the divine Will, causes precisely this sun to rise — the divine Life flooding all that follows. typological
Psalm 19:4–6 — “Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course. His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends. There is nothing hidden from its heat.” The sun rising and making its circuit such that nothing is exempt from its warmth corresponds to what the prevenient act accomplishes: the divine Sun rises and its warmth reaches all the soul’s acts “as though in one single act” — no part of the day left in shadow. typological
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.” “My Life remains duplicated in all of her acts” is the doctrinal content of this verse disclosed in its operative mechanism: it is Christ’s life operating through the soul’s acts — the duplication is precisely what Paul names as living by faith in the Son of God. direct doctrinal parallel
John 1:9 — “The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.” Christ as the true light that illuminates all things when He rises: the prevenient act is the soul’s act of admitting the true light to illumine all that follows. Christological/Trinitarian
The Clouds: Obstacles to the Prevenient Act
“the prevenient act can be shaded — obscured by the human ways, by one’s own will, by self-esteem, by negligence and other things, which are like clouds before the Sun, that render its light less vivid on the face of the earth.”
Romans 8:5–8 — “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be. Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.” The cloud-causes enumerated in the entry — “human ways, one’s own will, self-esteem, negligence” — correspond precisely to what Paul names as “the flesh”: the complex of self-directed impulses that opposes the Spirit. The prevenient act is dimmed when the clouds of the flesh interpose between the Sun and the soul’s operative surface. direct doctrinal parallel
Galatians 5:17 — “For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.” The ongoing conflict between cloud and sun — between the self’s natural resistance and the Spirit’s action — is the structural dynamic behind the shadable prevenient act. direct doctrinal parallel
Isaiah 59:2 — “But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.” The sins and weaknesses that obscure the face of God correspond to the clouds obscuring the Sun: the prevenient act’s efficacy is diminished by the cloud-causes without the relationship being severed. direct doctrinal parallel
James 1:6–8 — “But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord. He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.” The cloud-causes (self-will, self-esteem, negligence) produce precisely the double-minded instability James describes: a prevenient act qualified by self-will is a mixed act, partially offered and partially retained. direct doctrinal parallel
The Actual Act: Cloud-Dispelling and Many Suns
“the actual act is not subject to clouds; on the contrary, it has the virtue of dispelling the clouds, if there are any, and it makes many more suns rise, in which my Life is duplicated, with such vividness of light and heat as to form as many new suns, one more beautiful than the other.”
Matthew 5:14–16 — “You are the light of the world. … let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” The actual act as the operative form of the light that cannot be hidden: not subject to the clouds that can shade the prevenient disposition, the actual act done in the Will is the lamp set on its stand rather than under a bowl. direct doctrinal parallel
John 8:12 — “Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.” The actual act as participation in Christ’s own light: the sun rising with each actual act done in the Will is Christ’s own light taking operative form in the soul’s action. Each new sun is His life duplicated in the moment of the act. Christological/Trinitarian
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.” “Ever-increasing glory” produced by the Spirit’s action in those who contemplate with unveiled faces: each actual act produces “as many new suns, one more beautiful than the other” — the increasing transformation into the image of the Sun, each act more radiant than the preceding. direct doctrinal parallel
Daniel 12:3 — “Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and ever.” The progressive brightening of the wise — “as many new suns, one more beautiful than the other” — corresponds to Daniel’s vision of growing luminous glory. The actual acts done in the Will are the mechanism by which the soul approaches Daniel’s stars. typological
1 Corinthians 15:41–42 — “There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.” The graduated beauty of distinct celestial bodies as the analogy for the graduated beauty of the successive suns: each actual act produces a sun of its own splendor, “one more beautiful than the other,” as star differs from star. typological
The Mutual Necessity: Prevenient Prepares, Actual Preserves
“both of them are necessary: the prevenient act gives the hand, disposes and forms the plane for the actual act; the actual act preserves and expands the plane of the prevenient.”
James 2:17 — “Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.” The prevenient act corresponds to faith — the anticipatory interior offering that governs all that follows; the actual act corresponds to the works that give faith its operative expression. Neither alone constitutes the full life in God; both together constitute the living DW act. direct doctrinal parallel
Ephesians 2:8–10 — “for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.” The “prepared in advance” dimension of good works corresponds to the prevenient act: the plane is formed in advance. The “do good works” dimension corresponds to the actual act: the plane is then operated and expanded. direct doctrinal parallel
Luke 8:15 — “Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.” Hearing and retaining the word (prevenient — the plane formed at the day’s start) and persevering to produce the crop (actual — the plane preserved and expanded by each operative moment). typological
Matthew 25:1–13 (paraphrase) — The prudent virgins who kept oil in their vessels from the beginning (prevenient — the capacity stored in advance) and the lamps they could therefore keep burning when the bridegroom arrived (actual — the burning that preserves and expends the prepared store). The interplay of the two forms corresponds to the mutual necessity Jesus names. typological
Philippians 1:6 — “being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.” The divine faithfulness that begins and completes — the prevenient act “begins” the day’s work in the Will; the actual acts carry it to completion moment by moment. direct doctrinal parallel
Stage Two — Comparison with Hogan’s Commentary
CORRESPONDENCES
No explicit Scripture cited by Hogan in this commentary. Her engagement with the entry is entirely pedagogical and explanatory. There are therefore no direct correspondences of identified passages to compare.
DEVIATIONS
None. The absence of citation from Hogan means there are no deviating identifications to record.
ADDITIONS — MINE
- Mark 1:35 — Jesus’s morning prayer as the Christological prototype of the prevenient act
- Psalm 5:3 — morning orientation of the self toward God as the Psalmic form of the prevenient act
- Psalm 57:8 — awakening the soul to consecration at the first light; anticipating the dawn
- Romans 12:1 — total self-offering as living sacrifice as the structural parallel to the prevenient act
- Hebrews 11:1 — faith as confidence in what has not yet occurred; the prevenient act as faith applied to the totality of the day’s acts before they unfold
- Philippians 2:13 — God working in the soul to will; the prevenient act as the creaturely confirmation of the divinely worked will
- Malachi 4:2 — the sun of righteousness rising for those who revere the divine name; the prevenient act causing this sun to rise
- Psalm 19:4–6 — the sun making its circuit so that nothing is deprived of its warmth; the prevenient act’s scope over all the day’s acts
- Galatians 2:20 — Christ living in the soul through the soul’s acts; the doctrinal content of “my Life duplicated in all her acts”
- John 1:9 — the true light illuminating all things when admitted; the prevenient act as the act of admitting the true light
- Romans 8:5–8 — the flesh (cloud-causes) vs. the Spirit (sun); the structural dynamic behind the shadable prevenient act
- Galatians 5:17 — the ongoing flesh-Spirit conflict as the basis of the cloud structure
- Isaiah 59:2 — sin obscuring the face of God; cloud-causes diminishing the prevenient act’s efficacy
- James 1:6–8 — double-mindedness as the consequence of the cloud-causes; the mixed prevenient act as the unstable form
- Matthew 5:14–16 — the light that cannot be hidden; the actual act as the lamp set on its stand
- John 8:12 — Christ as the light of the world; each actual act as participation in that light
- 2 Corinthians 3:18 — ever-increasing glory from the Spirit; each actual act producing a more beautiful sun
- Daniel 12:3 — the wise shining with increasing brightness; the successive suns as Daniel’s stars
- 1 Corinthians 15:41–42 — star differing from star in splendor; the graduated beauty of distinct suns
- James 2:17 — faith without works is dead; the prevenient-actual dyad as the DW form of the faith-works unity
- Ephesians 2:8–10 — works prepared in advance; prevenient act as the advance preparation, actual act as the execution
- Luke 8:15 — hearing/retaining and persevering/producing as the two phases of the good soil
- Matthew 25:1–13 — prudent virgins keeping oil (prevenient) and burning lamps when the bridegroom arrives (actual)
- Philippians 1:6 — divine faithfulness beginning and completing; the prevenient act initiating what the actual acts carry to completion
ADDITIONS — HERS
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Teaching-source identification: Hogan explicitly names the doctrinal origin — “it comes directly from him” — establishing this as a teaching Jesus provides directly to Luisa, not a theological reflection of Luisa’s own. The pastoral instruction to groups who study the Divine Will finds its source text here.
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“Virtue” = “power” gloss: Hogan clarifies that “it has the virtue of dispelling the clouds” uses “virtue” in its older sense of active power, not moral quality. This is a lexical addition with significant doctrinal weight: the actual act is not merely commendable in dispelling clouds but has operative power to do so.
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Pedagogical frame: Hogan addresses those “leading new groups” specifically, identifying this as the canonical source text for the prevenient/actual act distinction in DW spirituality. No scriptural citation accompanies this framing, but the implicit background is the catechetical tradition’s engagement with the interplay of interior disposition and operative act.
VIP / SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS
No VIP designation. Hogan marks the entry as practically important for group leaders (“those of you leading new groups, here’s your teaching”) and expresses admiration (“what we’ve just read is totally incredible”), but no explicit VIP language is applied.
STAGE TWO SYNTHESIS
This entry is unusual in that Hogan provides no explicit Scripture — her entire commentary is explanatory and pedagogical. The biblical imagination must be drawn from Stage One entirely. The entry’s dominant traditions are: the morning-prayer tradition (Psalms 5, 57, 19; Mark 1:35) for the prevenient act; the flesh-Spirit conflict (Romans 8:5–8, Galatians 5:17) for the cloud structure; the faith-works unity (James 2:17, Ephesians 2:8–10) for the prevenient-actual mutual necessity; and the light and glory traditions (Malachi 4:2, John 8:12, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Daniel 12:3) for the sun-rising imagery. Galatians 2:20 is the load-bearing doctrinal anchor for “my Life duplicated in all her acts.” Hogan’s identification of the entry as the source text for the DW movement’s understanding of these two acts, and her gloss of “virtue” as “power,” are the primary pastoral contributions.
Cross-Entry Synthesis
Volume 14 — May 27, 1922 “The prevenient act and the actual act.”
The Prevenient Act: Morning Consecration and Anticipatory Fiat
The entry establishes a two-act structure at the center of the DW operative life: the prevenient act and the actual act, distinct in nature and function, mutually necessary. The prevenient act is the foundational one: “at the first rising of the day, fixes her will in Mine, and decides and confirms that she wants to live and operate only in my Volition. She anticipates all of her acts and makes them all flow in my Will.”
Hogan provides no Scripture for this entry; Stage One works from the tradition entirely. The morning-prayer tradition in the Psalms (5:3; 57:8; 19:4–6) is the closest Psalmic register: the soul stirring itself to consecration before the day begins, orienting the whole self toward God in anticipation. Mark 1:35 provides the Christological prototype: Jesus’s habit of rising before dawn to pray establishes the prevenient act as the structural expression of what Sonship naturally does — orienting the will to the Father before any operative moment occurs. It is, in Jesus’s case, the natural expression of perfect union; in the DW soul’s case, it is the deliberate daily re-establishment of that same union.
Romans 12:1 provides the doctrinal anchor: “offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.” The prevenient act is the daily, renewed enactment of this total offering — not offered act by act but anticipated in its totality at the day’s threshold. Hebrews 11:1’s “faith is confidence in what we hope for” identifies the epistemological structure: the prevenient act operates on the conviction that all acts offered in anticipation will indeed flow in the Will, before any single act is performed. Philippians 2:13 supplies the divine side of the synergy: “it is God who works in you to will and to act” — the prevenient act is the soul’s confirmation of the divine working that has already made the will available. God forms the will; the soul at the day’s first light confirms and fixes it.
The Sun Rising / Life Duplicated in All Acts
“With the prevenient will, my Sun rises, my Life remains duplicated in all of her acts, as though in one single act.” The image is consistent with the solar theology pervading the volume: the divine Will as Sun, its rising as the operative presence of the divine Life in the soul’s day. Malachi 4:2’s “sun of righteousness” rising with healing in its rays is the messianic form of this: the soul who reveres the divine name at the day’s start receives the rising of the divine Sun over all that follows. Psalm 19:4–6’s solar circuit — nothing deprived of warmth — is the scope: not some acts but all, “as though in one single act,” the entire day covered by the single act of prevenient consecration.
The doctrinal claim is carried by Galatians 2:20: “I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith.” The duplication of Christ’s Life in all the soul’s acts is Paul’s experience articulated in its mechanism. The prevenient act establishes the Galatians 2:20 condition for the whole day: every act performed within the day is an act in which it is Christ who lives, not Luisa alone. The “as though in one single act” precision — the entire day anticipated and offered as one — is the operative extension of Paul’s “I no longer live.”
The Clouds: Obstacles to the Prevenient Act
The prevenient act is shadable — not destroyed but dimmed by what Jesus enumerates as “human ways, one’s own will, self-esteem, negligence.” Stage One identifies Romans 8:5–8 as the doctrinal ground: “the mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God.” The cloud-causes are Paul’s “flesh” named specifically: the human-ways dimension (flesh’s gravitational pull toward creaturely familiarity), the self-will dimension (flesh as autonomous willing), the self-esteem dimension (flesh’s pride seeking recognition), and negligence (flesh’s resistance to the sustained effort the Will requires). Galatians 5:17 provides the ongoing conflict structure: flesh against Spirit, Spirit against flesh, each contesting the ground of the soul’s operative day.
The cloud image is precise: it does not deny the sun’s existence or extinguish it, but renders its light “less vivid on the face of the earth.” The cloud-causes do not cancel the prevenient act but diminish the intensity with which the divine Life reaches the soul’s operative surface. Isaiah 59:2’s “your sins have hidden his face from you” is the prophetic form of this: the face hidden rather than the face destroyed. James 1:6–8’s double-mindedness identifies the result: the soul whose prevenient act has been qualified by self-will is unstable in all she does — not because the act was absent but because it was divided.
The Actual Act: Cloud-Dispelling and Many Suns
The actual act has two distinctive properties the prevenient act lacks: it is not subject to clouds, and it actively dispels them when present. “The virtue of dispelling the clouds” — Hogan correctly glosses “virtue” as “power” here: not moral admirable quality but operative efficacy. The actual act done in the Will has an inherently cloud-clearing energy; it cannot be dimmed by the cloud-causes because it is an operative moment in the Will rather than an anticipatory act potentially qualified by the day’s accumulated resistance.
Stage One identifies Matthew 5:14–16 as the primary New Testament anchor: the actual act is the lamp set on its stand, giving light to all in the house. The prevenient act is the oil; the actual act is the burning. The actual act is not subject to the hesitations and self-qualifications that can shade the morning disposition because it is already in execution — the will has met the operative moment and is doing what it set out to do.
The multiplication imagery is striking: “it makes many more suns rise… as many new suns, one more beautiful than the other.” Stage One identifies 2 Corinthians 3:18 as the primary doctrinal ground: “being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory.” Each actual act done in the Will produces a sun — Christ’s life duplicated in the operative moment — and each subsequent sun is more beautiful than the previous. The trajectory is unidirectional increase: each act not only generates its own sun but builds on all preceding acts, the plane laid by the prevenient act expanding and brightening with each actual act performed within it. Daniel 12:3 and 1 Corinthians 15:41–42 provide the eschatological and cosmological registers: the graded brightness of stars corresponds to the graded beauty of the successive suns, and the final state of “shining like the heavens” is what the cumulative actual acts approach.
The Mutual Necessity: Prevenient Prepares, Actual Preserves
The conclusion is precise and complete: “both of them are necessary: the prevenient act gives the hand, disposes and forms the plane for the actual act; the actual act preserves and expands the plane of the prevenient.” The two acts are not interchangeable but functionally distinct and mutually constitutive.
Stage One identifies James 2:17 as the scriptural framing most germane to the relationship: “faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.” The prevenient act is to the actual act as faith is to works — not competing alternatives but the interior disposition and its operative expression. Neither alone is sufficient; each depends on the other. Ephesians 2:8–10 extends the analysis: the good works are “prepared in advance” by God (prevenient dimension) and then “done” by those created in Christ Jesus (actual dimension). The preparation and the execution are distinct moments of the same divine economy.
Philippians 1:6 provides the divine faithfulness framing: “he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion.” The prevenient act initiates the day’s work in the Will; the actual acts carry it to completion. God’s faithfulness underwrites both the beginning and the completion — but the two-phase structure of beginning and completing is the form in which the completion occurs. Luke 8:15’s good soil receives the word (prevenient), retains it, and by persevering produces the crop (actual); Matthew 25:1–13’s prudent virgins store oil from the start (prevenient) and keep lamps burning when the moment arrives (actual). In both cases the prior preparation and the operative moment are structurally inseparable.
Synthesis
The entry’s dominant biblical imagination is the Morning-Prayer and Faith-Works traditions operating in tandem. The morning-prayer tradition (Psalm 5:3; 57:8; Mark 1:35) provides the temporal form of the prevenient act. The faith-works tradition (James 2:17; Ephesians 2:8–10; Philippians 2:12–13) provides the operative-structural analysis of how the two acts relate. The solar tradition (Malachi 4:2; Psalm 19:4–6; Daniel 12:3; 2 Corinthians 3:18) provides the image-register in which both acts’ effects are described. The flesh-Spirit conflict (Romans 8:5–8; Galatians 5:17) gives the cloud-cause structure its doctrinal ground.
The load-bearing scriptural traditions are Galatians 2:20 (“Christ lives in me”) as the doctrinal anchor for the Life-duplication claim, and James 2:17 as the structural principle of the prevenient-actual relationship. Mark 1:35 is the Christological prototype that grounds the entire teaching in Jesus’s own practice before making it normative for the DW soul.
Three findings carry the most theological significance. First, the prevenient act’s anticipatory scope — “she anticipates all of her acts and makes them all flow in my Will” in a single morning consecration — identifies the DW morning offering as a total offering operating at the level of the day’s entire operation before any particular act occurs: the Galatians 2:20 condition established in advance. Second, the actual act’s cloud-dispelling power — its resistance to the cloud-causes that can shade the prevenient act — discloses a structural difference in the two acts’ vulnerability to the flesh: the prevenient act can be qualified; the actual act performed in the Will cannot be dimmed but only performed or not performed. Third, the “one more beautiful than the other” graduation of the successive suns identifies an inherent trajectory in the DW life: each actual act done in the Will does not merely maintain the level of the previous but exceeds it, generating a sun of greater vividness. The operative life in the Will is not static maintenance but continuous brightening.
Observation Notes
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14-1922-05-27
New tracking item — PAA-1 (Prevenient-Actual Act Doctrine): First formal articulation of the two-act structure of DW operative life. The prevenient act: morning consecration by which the soul fixes her will in the divine Will and anticipates all her acts, making them flow in the Will “as though in one single act” — shadable by cloud-causes (human ways, self-will, self-esteem, negligence) but governing the entire day. The actual act: each individual operative moment in the Will — not subject to clouds, with the active power to dispel them, generating “many more suns, one more beautiful than the other.” Both necessary: the prevenient gives the hand and forms the plane; the actual preserves and expands it. Hogan identifies this entry as the source text for the teaching in DW groups. Governing anchors: Romans 12:1 (total self-offering as the doctrinal form of the prevenient act); Galatians 2:20 (Life duplicated in all acts); James 2:17 (faith-works mutuality as structural parallel); Mark 1:35 (Christological prototype: Jesus’s morning prayer as the prevenient act in its perfect form).
ECA-1 update — cloud-dispelling-actual-act / many-suns form: The actual act done in the Will “has the virtue of dispelling the clouds, if there are any, and it makes many more suns rise, in which my Life is duplicated, with such vividness of light and heat as to form as many new suns, one more beautiful than the other.” The actual act’s multiplicative capacity stated in solar imagery: each act not only generates its own sun but the progression is one of graduated increasing beauty. Governing anchors: 2 Corinthians 3:18 (ever-increasing glory); Daniel 12:3 (shining with increasing brightness). Note: Hogan provides no scriptural citations for this entry; all biblical identifications in this entry are Stage One contributions.