This page has three parts: Independent Biblical Identification, Cross-Entry Synthesis, and Observation Notes.
15-1923-06-21 Biblical Resonance Analysis
Volume 15 — June 21, 1923 “Difference between the soul who finds herself in the Divine Will because the Divine Will envelops her and is everywhere by Its own nature, and one who prays and acts in the Divine Will having the knowledge of what she does within herself.”
STAGE ONE — INDEPENDENT BIBLICAL IDENTIFICATION
The Distinction Between Passive Envelopment and Active Entry into the Divine Will
“There is a great difference between one who prays and acts because my Will envelops her, being everywhere by Its own nature, and one who, of her own will, having the knowledge of what she does within herself, enters into the divine sphere of my Will to operate and pray.”
Psalm 139:7–10 — “Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence? If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there! If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.” The DW’s omnipresence is the doctrinal fact that grounds Luisa’s question and that Jesus affirms without qualification: the divine Will is already everywhere, already enveloping all creatures. But the omnipresence is the ground, not the answer — the question is what the creature does within the omnipresent field. Direct doctrinal parallel
Acts 17:28 — “‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’” The creature is already and continuously within the divine encompassing reality — this is the “envelopment” side of the distinction. She already lives in God as in an ambient; the question is whether she actively enters and consciously inhabits what already contains her. The ambient presence and the deliberate indwelling are genuinely distinct. Direct doctrinal parallel
John 15:4–5 — “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. I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” The necessity of active abiding (meno) despite the Vine’s omnipresent life-sustaining relation to the branch — simply being attached is not the same as abiding. The distinction between passive attachment and deliberate abiding is the Johannine parallel to the sun/shade analogy: the Vine’s life is already flowing, but the branch that has withdrawn into the shade does not receive it in full. Direct doctrinal parallel
Philippians 2:12–13 — “So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.” The interplay of God’s ubiquitous working-in and the creature’s active working-out corresponds precisely to the distinction: the divine Will already works everywhere within the creature (the prevenient presence), and yet the creature must actively enter and cooperate with what is already working. The two movements are not contradictory but structurally necessary to each other. Direct doctrinal parallel
Romans 12:2 — “Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.” The active transformation — the deliberate laying-down of conformity to the creaturely — corresponds to “by wanting to enter into my Will, the soul lays down her own and removes the shade of her volition.” The passive receiving of divine envelopment does not accomplish what the active choice to lay down the human will accomplishes. Direct doctrinal parallel
The Sun Analogy: The Shade of the Human Will and the Vivid Light of the Divine
“It happens as when the sun fills the earth with its light, though the light and the heat are not the same at all points: at some points there is shade, at other points there is direct light and the heat is more intense… by wanting to enter into my Will, the soul lays down her own and removes the shade of her volition, and my Will makes Its vivid light shine, It invests her, It transforms her into light itself. My daughter, how many evils the shade of one’s own will does: it cools down the soul, it produces sloth, sleep, sluggishness.”
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 soul “plunged into my Eternal Volition… transformed into light itself” is precisely the 2 Corinthians 3:18 process: unveiled (the shade removed), beholding (exposed to the direct rays), transformed (invested and absorbed by the divine light). The “veil” Paul names is the human will’s shade — its removal is the condition for the transformation. Direct doctrinal parallel
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 sun of righteousness as the image of the DW’s vivid light investing the soul who removes the shade: the healing and the leaping correspond directly to the removal of cooling, sloth, and sluggishness that the shade produces. The sun of righteousness rising names God’s own initiative; the going-out to receive it names the creaturely response. Typological
Ephesians 5:8–14 — “For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, … “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” The “sleep” and “sluggishness” Jesus names as the evils of the human-will shade are precisely Ephesians 5’s image: the shade of the human will is a form of sleep and darkness; the deliberate entry into the DW is the awakening into the light in which the Lord shines. 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 DW as the divine light; the shade of the human will as the darkness in which the soul remains when she does not actively follow into the direct rays; the deliberate entering as the act that removes the shade and produces the light of life. Direct doctrinal parallel
Psalm 84:11 — “For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.” The sun as the canonical image of God in the Psalter, establishing the propriety of the analogy Jesus uses: the divine is not merely like a sun but is named as one. Affective/meditative
Isaiah 60:1–3 — “Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the LORD’s glory has risen on you! For behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.” The soul plunged in the DW and transformed into light is the Isaiah 60 figure arising into the divine light and becoming its radiance: the direct-ray transformation produces a soul who in turn becomes light for others. The “in the name of all” thanksgiving the plunged soul gives corresponds to the nations-drawn-to-light of the prophetic vision. Typological
1 Thessalonians 5:4–5 — “But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,” The identity-claim that the one who lives in the DW appropriates: she is a child of light not by aspiration but by transformation. The shade of the human will is the darkness and night Paul names; its removal produces the day-identity. Direct doctrinal parallel
The Soul Plunged in the Will: Thanksgiving on Behalf of All
“The soul, plunged into my Eternal Volition, says to Me: ‘Thank You, O Holy Supreme Volition, for your light and for all the goods You produce by filling Heaven and earth with your Eternal Will; for all, I want to give You the return of the good You do.’ And I feel such honor, glory and satisfaction, that no other equals it.”
Colossians 3:17 — “Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” The soul plunged in the DW giving thanks “for all” and “in the name of all” is the Colossians 3:17 universal-thanksgiving structure enacted at its highest register: not an individual’s thanks but the creaturely return of gratitude for the totality of divine goodness filling heaven and earth. Direct doctrinal parallel
Revelation 5:13 — “I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!” The eschatological universal praise of all creation is what the DW soul anticipates and enacts in the present through her plunged-in thanksgiving: she gives, in the name of all, what all creation will give at the last. Affective/meditative
Psalm 103:1–2 — “By David. Praise the LORD, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! Praise the LORD, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits,” The total interior engagement of every faculty in universal blessing is the Psalm’s form of what the DW soul’s thanksgiving accomplishes: not selective but comprehensive, not partial but “all that is within me.” Affective/meditative
The Vision of Contagious Diseases: Prophetic Forewarning
“I found myself outside of myself, and I saw as if contagious diseases were to come, and many people were carried to leper hospitals. A general fright was reigning, and many other maladies of new kinds. But I hope that Jesus may want to placate Himself by the merits of His most precious Blood.”
Amos 3:7 — “Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.” The prophetic vision of contagious diseases before they arrive is the Amos 3:7 pattern: God forewarns through the prophetic soul who sees what is coming. Luisa’s “I saw as if… were to come” is the prophetic conditional that the classical prophets use. Direct doctrinal parallel
Luke 21:11 — “There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.” The pestilences as part of the eschatological sequence named by Jesus — “many other maladies of new kinds” corresponds to this register, and the “general fright” to the “terrors.” Direct doctrinal parallel
Revelation 6:8 — “And behold, a pale horse, and the name of he who sat on it was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.” The pale-horse pestilence of the apocalyptic sequence corresponds to the contagious diseases vision: the chastisement of epidemic is named in Revelation as one of the instruments of divine justice at the eschatological juncture. Typological
Numbers 21:6–9 (paraphrase) — The plague of fiery serpents sent as chastisement; the cure through the bronze serpent lifted up for any bitten to look at and live. Luisa’s intercessory hope — “Jesus may want to placate Himself by the merits of His most precious Blood” — corresponds to the looking-at-the-lifted-bronze-serpent: the Blood of Christ is the New Covenant equivalent of what the uplifted serpent typified, the merciful provision that can stay the plague. Typological
STAGE TWO — COMPARISON WITH HOGAN’S COMMENTARY
CORRESPONDENCES
Both identified Psalm 139:7–10 for the DW’s omnipresence as the doctrinal ground of Luisa’s question. Both identified 2 Corinthians 3:18 (implicitly) for the transformation-into-light as the outcome of the direct-sun exposure. Both identified Amos 3:7 for the prophetic-forewarning character of the contagious diseases vision. Both identified the shade/light analogy as the entry’s central didactic structure. Both identified the evils of operating from one’s own will (cooling, sloth, sleep, sluggishness) as requiring emphasis.
DEVIATIONS
For the passive-envelopment vs. active-entry distinction, Stage One centered on Acts 17:28 (in him we live and move), John 15:4–5 (abide vs. merely attached), and Philippians 2:12–13 (God working in / creature working out); Hogan concentrated on the pastoral-practical dimension — the necessity of repeatedly renewing the DW entry throughout the day because the soul “slips in and out.” Stage One approaches the distinction structurally; Hogan approaches it experientially.
For the transformation-into-light, Stage One identified Malachi 4:2 (sun of righteousness with healing in its wings), Ephesians 5:8–14 (sleep/darkness → light in the Lord), Isaiah 60:1–3 (arise and shine, nations drawn to the light), and 1 Thessalonians 5:4–5 (children of light); Hogan referenced the patristic divinization tradition (the second person became human to divinize us) and the God-is-light / God-is-love dual transformation frame without citing Scripture directly for it. Stage One’s angle is the canonical light-transformation lexicon; Hogan’s is the patristic theological synthesis.
ADDITIONS — MINE
- Acts 17:28 — in him we live and move and have our being as the canonical statement of the envelopment-side of the distinction; the ambient divine presence that is not the same as deliberate active entry
- John 15:4–5 — the abide/merely-attached distinction as the Johannine structural parallel to the sun/shade distinction; the Vine’s life already present vs. the branch actively abiding
- Philippians 2:12–13 — God working in / creature working out as the interplay that corresponds to the passive-envelopment vs. active-entry structure
- Romans 12:2 — be transformed by the renewal of your mind as the active-choice parallel to removing the shade of one’s own will
- Malachi 4:2 — the sun of righteousness with healing as the typological frame for the DW’s vivid light removing cooling, sloth, sluggishness
- Ephesians 5:8–14 — the awakening-from-sleep / arise-from-darkness cluster as the precise canonical parallel to the shade’s production of sleep and sluggishness
- Isaiah 60:1–3 — the arising-into-divine-light and nations-drawn-to-light as the typological register of the DW soul transformed into light for all
- 1 Thessalonians 5:4–5 — children of light / children of the day as the identity the DW soul appropriates through the transformation
- Psalm 84:11 — the LORD as sun and shield as the canonical warrant for the sun analogy
- Colossians 3:17 — giving thanks in the name of all as the universal-thanksgiving structure the DW soul enacts
- Revelation 5:13 — every creature’s universal praise as the eschatological reality the DW soul anticipates in the present
- Psalm 103:1–2 — “all that is within me, bless his holy name” as the total interior engagement the plunged-in thanksgiving involves
- Revelation 6:8 — the pale-horse pestilence as the apocalyptic register of the contagious diseases vision
- Numbers 21:6–9 — the plague / bronze-serpent typology for Luisa’s intercessory hope in the Blood as the placating instrument
- Luke 21:11 — pestilences and terrors as the eschatological-sequence frame for the chastisement vision
ADDITIONS — HERS
- Isaiah 64:10 — “Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation” — applied to the contagious diseases vision as a chastisement-desolation text; the general fright and spreading plague as a form of what Isaiah describes
VIP / SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS
Hogan opens: “I have a VIP on this one.” Formal VIP designation. The content elevated centers on the passive-envelopment vs. active-entry distinction and the sun/shade analogy — particularly the doctrinal claim that deliberate willful entry into the DW produces a qualitatively superior intensity of light, investment, and transformation, and that no other honor or satisfaction equals what the plunged-in soul’s thanksgiving returns to God. VIP sequential number TBD.
STAGE TWO SYNTHESIS
The entry’s doctrinal center is the clarification of a question that might arise at any point in the DW formation: if the DW is omnipresent, what is the point of explicitly entering it? The answer involves the distinction between the divine presence as ambient field and the divine presence as direct transformative encounter — the latter requiring an act of the creature’s own will. Hogan’s pastoral contribution (the necessity of renewing the DW entry repeatedly, because the soul slips in and out; the comparison with early aviation and the 747 as levels of spiritual operation) supplies the experiential-catechetical dimension. Stage One’s primary contributions are the canonical light-transformation lexicon (Malachi 4:2; Ephesians 5:8–14; Isaiah 60:1–3; 1 Thessalonians 5:4–5), the structural theology of the passive-active distinction (Acts 17:28; John 15:4–5; Philippians 2:12–13), and the full prophetic and apocalyptic register for the contagious diseases vision (Numbers 21:6–9; Revelation 6:8; Luke 21:11). The combined findings reveal this as a major PAA-1 development — the clearest statement in the corpus of why the prevenient divine presence everywhere does not substitute for the actual act of deliberate creaturely entry.
Cross-Entry Synthesis
Volume 15 — June 21, 1923 “Difference between the soul who finds herself in the Divine Will because the Divine Will envelops her and is everywhere by Its own nature, and one who prays and acts in the Divine Will having the knowledge of what she does within herself.”
The Distinction Between Passive Envelopment and Active Entry
The entry opens with what is a genuinely philosophical question embedded in practice: if the DW is already everywhere by its nature, what does it mean to “enter” it? And does the entry make any difference? Luisa raises the question during her own prayer — noticing the apparent contradiction between the DW’s omnipresence and her request to be placed within it. Jesus’ answer is the entry’s doctrinal content and the source of Hogan’s VIP designation.
The answer is not a resolution of the contradiction but a distinction: both terms of Luisa’s question are true, and the distinction between them is not trivial but constitutive of the difference between two entirely different modes of spiritual life. The DW is everywhere, enveloping all creatures — Psalm 139:7–10 and Acts 17:28 establish this as the inescapable background reality in which all creaturely existence takes place. In this sense Luisa is already in the DW; she cannot leave it. But this passive envelopment is not the same as the deliberate, willful, knowing entry the DW soul makes when she explicitly lays down her own will and plunges into the divine sphere.
The structural theology is supplied by three convergent Pauline texts. Acts 17:28 establishes the ambient: we live and move and have our being within the divine. Philippians 2:12–13 establishes the asymmetry: God works in the creature, and yet the creature must work out what God is working in. John 15:4–5 supplies the experiential form: the branch is already attached to the Vine, and the Vine’s life is already flowing through the attachment — but abiding (meno) is not the same as merely being attached. The branch that has withdrawn into shade, no longer actively orienting toward the source, receives the Vine’s life at reduced intensity.
Hogan names the pastoral implication directly: the question “if I fuse in the morning, is that enough?” — which people ask — receives a doctrinal no. The soul slips in and out throughout the day, and the deliberate renewal of the entry is not a sign of inadequate union but of the structural distinction between the two modes. The divine Will does not revoke its presence during the periods of slippage; but the creature who is in shade receives what the shade allows, not what the direct rays would provide.
The Sun Analogy: Removing the Shade, Receiving the Vivid Light
The sun analogy is the entry’s central didactic structure and the content Hogan marks as VIP. Its logic is precise: the sun fills the earth with light, but not uniformly — shade produces diminished light and reduced heat, while direct exposure produces vivid light and intense heat. The shade is real; the light is still present even in the shade; but the difference between shade and direct exposure is not marginal but qualitative.
Applied to the soul: the shade is the human will — not sin, not malice, but simply the created will operating as its own first principle rather than deliberately aligning with and entering the divine. The shade of the human will is a real obstruction, not an imaginary one. Its effects are named precisely: it cools the soul down (the thermal image of reduced spiritual vitality), produces sloth (absence of spiritual movement), sleep (cessation of active spiritual life), and sluggishness (inability to respond with alacrity to the divine impulse). Ephesians 5:8–14 is the canonical parallel: “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you” — the sleep and darkness are the shade’s effects; the awakening to light is the deliberate entry.
The removal of the shade — by wanting to enter the DW, by laying down the human will — produces the opposite sequence: the divine Will makes Its vivid light shine, invests the soul, transforms her into light itself. 2 Corinthians 3:18 is the mechanism: unveiled (shade removed), beholding (direct exposure), transformed (invested and absorbed by the rays). Malachi 4:2 names the result from the soul’s side: the sun of righteousness rises with healing in its wings and the soul “goes out leaping” — the cooling, sloth, and sluggishness reversed into vitality. Isaiah 60:1–3 names the result from the cosmic side: the soul arisen into the direct light becomes light herself, and nations are drawn to what she has become.
1 Thessalonians 5:4–5 supplies the identity that the transformation confers: children of light, children of the day. This is not aspiration but arrival — the soul who removes the shade and is transformed by the direct rays has become what she has entered.
The Soul’s Thanksgiving on Behalf of All
The hypothetical Jesus proposes — what if a creature, exposed to the sun’s burning rays and understanding them, gave thanks in the name of all for the light and all the goods the sun produces? — becomes the DW soul’s actual act. Plunged into the Eternal Will, she says: “Thank You, O Holy Supreme Volition, for your light and for all the goods You produce by filling Heaven and earth… for all, I want to give You the return of the good You do.”
The “for all” is not rhetorical generosity but the structural consequence of being plunged in the DW: in the DW, the soul stands not in her own place alone but in the place where the divine acts of filling heaven and earth are present, and she gives the creaturely return from that place. Colossians 3:17’s “everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father” and the eschatological universal praise of Revelation 5:13 (“every creature… saying, to him who sits on the throne be blessing and honor and glory”) supply the two registers: the present act and its eschatological counterpart. The DW soul anticipates and enacts in the present what all creation will render at the last.
Jesus’ response — “I feel such honor, glory and satisfaction, that no other equals it” — establishes the unique value of the deliberate-entry mode: the same thanksgiving given from the shade does not produce this return, because it does not carry the weight of the divine Will’s own light within it. The honor, glory, and satisfaction that “no other equals” is the measure of what the active entry accomplishes over and above what the passive envelopment allows.
The Vision of Contagious Diseases: Prophetic Chastisement Register
The entry closes with a brief but weighty prophetic vision: contagious diseases coming, people carried to isolation hospitals, general fright, and “many other maladies of new kinds.” Luisa’s response — hoping that the merits of the Blood will placate Jesus — is the intercessory posture of the victim soul still in office.
Amos 3:7 provides the framework Hogan explicitly names: God does nothing without first revealing it to His servants the prophets. The vision is not anxiety but disclosure — the prophetic soul sees the chastisement approaching so that intercession can begin before it arrives. Luke 21:11 (pestilences and terrors among the signs) and Revelation 6:8 (the pale horse of pestilence) supply the eschatological register: the contagious diseases are among the instruments of divine justice at the eschatological juncture, not random afflictions.
The Numbers 21:6–9 typology is the most pointed for Luisa’s response: when plague came upon Israel, the instrument of healing was not removal of the plague but the lifting up of the bronze serpent — the symbol that prefigured the lifting up of Christ. Luisa’s hope in “the merits of His most precious Blood” is the New Covenant form of looking at the uplifted serpent: the same divine provision, directed now at the chastisement she sees approaching. The Blood as the placating instrument is VSC-1’s intercessory mechanism stated in its most basic form — the victim soul standing between the plague and the people with the only thing that can stay it.
Synthesis
Dominant biblical imagination: The entry draws on the Johannine-Pauline indwelling tradition (John 15; Acts 17:28; Philippians 2:12–13; 2 Corinthians 3:18) and the canonical light-transformation lexicon (Malachi 4:2; Isaiah 60:1–3; Ephesians 5:8–14; 1 Thessalonians 5:4–5) as its primary structural traditions. The prophetic chastisement register (Amos 3:7; Revelation 6:8; Numbers 21) closes the entry.
Most load-bearing traditions: The Acts 17:28 / John 15:4–5 / Philippians 2:12–13 cluster is the most structurally load-bearing for the entry’s doctrinal center: the ambient-divine-presence distinguished from the active-abiding-within-it, with the working-in requiring a corresponding working-out. The 2 Corinthians 3:18 transformation-by-beholding is the most precise mechanism-text for the vivid-light investment that follows deliberate entry.
Three findings of highest theological significance: First, the entry provides the clearest statement in the corpus of the PAA-1 distinction: the prevenient divine presence everywhere (God working in, the ambient of Acts 17:28) does not substitute for the actual creaturely act of deliberate willful entry (the creature working out, the abiding of John 15:4). Both are real, both are necessary, and the difference between them is not trivial but the difference between shade and direct sunlight. Second, the naming of sloth, sleep, and sluggishness as the specific effects of the shade of the human will gives DWE-1’s “works outside the DW” claim its most precise anthropological content: the human will operating on its own does not produce evil acts but produces the spiritual cooling that eventually makes the soul incapable of the direct light. Third, the “no other equals it” of God’s satisfaction with the plunged-in soul’s thanksgiving establishes a hierarchy of creaturely acts not by moral quality but by mode of operation — the same thanksgiving from the shade and from the direct light are not equivalent, because the one carries the divine Will’s own light and the other does not.
Observation Notes
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15-1923-06-21
VIP — confirmed: Hogan: “I have a VIP on this one.” Formal single VIP designation. The elevated content centers on the passive-envelopment vs. active-entry distinction and the sun/shade analogy — specifically the doctrinal claim that deliberate willful entry into the DW produces qualitatively superior intensity of light, investment, and transformation, and that no other honor or satisfaction equals what the plunged-in soul’s thanksgiving returns to God. VIP sequential number TBD.
PAA-1 — clearest corpus statement of prevenient-vs-actual-entry distinction: The entry provides the most explicit statement yet of the PAA-1 structure: the DW’s omnipresent envelopment everywhere (prevenient presence — Acts 17:28 governing) is distinct from the soul’s deliberate willful entry with knowledge (actual act — John 15:4–5 and Philippians 2:12–13 governing). The distinction is not trivial but constitutive of the difference between shade and direct sunlight — and the effects of each mode are named precisely (shade: cooling, sloth, sleep, sluggishness; direct rays: vivid light, investment, transformation into light). Governing anchors added: Acts 17:28; John 15:4–5; Philippians 2:12–13; 2 Corinthians 3:18.
CEA-1 — contagious diseases / maladies of new kinds register: New chastisement vision. “I saw as if contagious diseases were to come, and many people were carried to leper hospitals. A general fright was reigning, and many other maladies of new kinds.” The prophetic structure follows Amos 3:7; the chastisement-instrumentality corresponds to Luke 21:11 and Revelation 6:8. Governing anchors: Amos 3:7; Luke 21:11; Revelation 6:8.