This page has three parts: Independent Biblical Identification, Cross-Entry Synthesis, and Observation Notes.
17-1925-07-20 Biblical Resonance Analysis
Volume 17 — July 20, 1925 “The immobility in which Grace finds itself. Sorrow of Jesus. The soul who lives in the Divine Will is the favorite of Grace.”
STAGE ONE — INDEPENDENT BIBLICAL IDENTIFICATION
Grace Paralyzed — The Harrowing Immobility
“My Grace is light, and as light, it naturally spreads. But the creatures do nothing but spread darkness; and while my light wants to enter into them, darkness spreads, paralyzing my light and rendering it as though immobile and without Life for the creatures.”
John 3:19–21 — “This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.” The choice of darkness over the available light is the entry’s “spreading darkness” dramatized as interior judicial verdict: creatures do not merely fail to receive the light but actively choose against it, spreading the darkness that paralyzes Grace’s motion. Direct doctrinal parallel
John 1:10–11 — “He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him. He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.” The non-reception of the light/Word that came with full generosity — the immobility of Grace is the experiential content of this non-reception: Grace has all the life and motion of the Word, but the refusal renders it as though immobile for those who refuse it. Direct doctrinal parallel
John 1:5 — “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.” The structural tension between the unconquered light and the resisting darkness — Grace retains its life and light even in the paralyzed state (it “feels the Life”), but the darkness of human refusal keeps it from moving toward its recipients. Direct doctrinal parallel
Isaiah 5:4 — “What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?” The divine lament over complete preparatory provision met with fruitlessness — the parallel to Grace’s state: every motion of Grace toward the creature is made; the creature yields nothing. Affective/meditative
“My Grace is Love, and contains the Life which can ignite everyone. But the creature, loving something else, renders this love as though dead for her, and my Grace feels the most harrowing pain because of the state of immobility”
Ephesians 4:30 — “Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.” The New Testament’s clearest formulation of the divine experience of pain from human resistance to grace — the grieving of the Spirit is the theological name for what the entry describes as the “most harrowing pain” of Grace’s immobility. Direct doctrinal parallel
Song of Songs 8:6–7 — “Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD. Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.” The love that contains “the Life which can ignite everyone” — the fire of divine love that cannot be extinguished from its own side but is rendered “as though dead” when the creature turns away; the flashes of fire unable to find a recipient. Affective/meditative
Revelation 3:15–16 — “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.” The tepidity of self-satisfaction renders Grace as effectively immobile as open rejection — the lukewarm creature who has enough religious comfort to resist the DW without enough conviction to reject Grace openly is the primary description of those who immobilize Grace through trifles and self-will. Direct doctrinal parallel
“not only from those who openly call themselves evil, but also from those who are said to be religious, pious souls… they render it immobile, and they cling to what they like, to their fuss, to human attachments, and to everything in which they feel the satisfaction of their own self. Therefore, in the place of Grace, they put their own self as life and as their own idol.”
Isaiah 29:13 — “The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;” The lip-service piety that renders Grace immobile — the heart remaining with self while the exterior observance is maintained; the most direct prophetic parallel for the religious/pious souls who immobilize Grace through attachment to self-satisfaction. Direct doctrinal parallel
Matthew 7:21–23 — “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’ Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’” The religious performance without will-surrender — the ones who say “Lord, Lord” while clinging to their own satisfaction are the ones who render Grace immobile even in holy things. Direct doctrinal parallel
Romans 1:21–25 — “Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things. Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves; who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.” The exchange of divine glory for idol-worship — the self-as-idol form of Grace’s immobilization is the interior version of what Paul names as the root of the Gentile collapse: exchanging God for the creature. Direct doctrinal parallel
Ezekiel 14:3 — “Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?” The interior idolatry — the idol placed within the heart rather than in an external shrine; the self placed as “life and as their own idol” in Grace’s place is precisely the idolatry of the heart that Ezekiel names. Direct doctrinal parallel
Hosea 2:5 — “For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’” The creature “loving something else” rather than the divine love — the going-after-other-loves that renders Grace “as though dead” for the soul. Affective/meditative
The DW Soul as Grace’s Favorite — Continuous Birth from the Supreme Will
“Wherever my Will reigns, my Grace is always in motion, it is always in feast, it always has something to do, it never remains grieved or idle. The soul in whom my Will reigns is the favorite of my Grace; she is its little secretary, in whom it places the secrets of its sorrows and of its joys.”
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 DW as the abiding condition through which Grace moves without obstruction — the branch abiding in the vine is the structural form of “wherever my Will reigns, my Grace is always in motion.” Direct doctrinal parallel
Romans 8:26–27 — “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. He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.” The Spirit continuously active in the DW soul — never idle, never grieved into immobility but always at work through the soul who gives it full access; the “always has something to do” of Grace in the DW soul corresponds to the Spirit’s unceasing intercessory work. Direct doctrinal parallel
Proverbs 8:30–31 — “then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him, rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.” The Wisdom figure’s continuous joy and motion before God — the DW soul’s state mirrors the Wisdom that perpetually rejoices; the “always in feast” of Grace in the DW soul takes the form of Wisdom’s delight before the Creator. Affective/meditative
2 Corinthians 6:1 — “Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.” The receiving of grace not in vain — the DW soul is the one in whom Grace cannot be rendered immobile or vain; she is the co-worker through whom Grace accomplishes everything it intends. Direct doctrinal parallel
1 Corinthians 15:10 — “But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” The grace of God “not in vain” as the lived experience of the DW soul — Grace always in motion, always in feast, producing more work than any human initiative, yet recognizing it is the grace that works. Direct doctrinal parallel
“It entrusts everything to her, because my Will has sufficient space in order to receive the deposit which Grace contains; because she is nothing other than the continuous birth from my Supreme Will.”
John 1:12–13 — “But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” The being-born-of-God — born not from creaturely initiative but from the divine will alone — as the structural description of the DW soul; the “continuous birth from my Supreme Will” is the unceasing form of what John 1:13 names as the one-time entry into divine sonship. Direct doctrinal parallel
John 3:5–6 — “Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom. That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” The birth of the Spirit as the characterization of the DW soul — born continuously from the Supreme Will because the Spirit through whom all spiritual birth occurs operates in her without interruption. Direct doctrinal parallel
1 John 3:9 — “Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.” God’s seed abiding as the ground of continuous birth — the Supreme Will remaining in the DW soul constitutes the ongoing birth, the permanent state of the one in whom God’s seed continuously dwells. Direct doctrinal parallel
Galatians 4:19 — “My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—” The ongoing birth-pangs of formation — the “continuous birth” is not a moment completed but a process perpetually continuing until Christ is fully formed; in the DW soul this formation is unimpeded, making the birth continuous rather than periodic. Direct doctrinal parallel
Isaiah 66:9 — “Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?” says the LORD. “Shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?” says your God.” The divine commitment to completing every birth he has begun — the “continuous birth from my Supreme Will” is the birth the Lord will not interrupt; the Lord’s own fidelity guarantees its continuity. Direct doctrinal parallel
2 Corinthians 5:17 — “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.” The new creation as the permanent condition of the DW soul — the old (self-as-idol, Grace immobilized) continuously passing, the new continuously arriving; the DW soul lives in the perpetual “behold, the new has come.” Direct doctrinal parallel
STAGE TWO — COMPARISON WITH HOGAN’S COMMENTARY
CORRESPONDENCES
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John 3:19–21 — Both identify for the light/darkness movement. Stage One uses it for the creatures actively choosing darkness; Hogan cites it directly at “the creatures do nothing but spread darkness.” Full correspondence on the governing Johannine text for the immobility of Grace as light.
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Ephesians 4:30 — Both identify. Stage One cites it for the harrowing-pain section; Hogan cites it twice — once for the “harrowing pain” middle section and once at the end for the “never remains grieved or idle” contrast. Both identify the same governing text; Hogan’s double citation marks it as the entry’s single most important New Testament reference in her reading.
DEVIATIONS
None within the entry’s main movements. Both citation streams agree on their two explicit scriptural anchors.
ADDITIONS — MINE
- John 1:5 — the unconquered light shining in resisting darkness; the light not extinguished but unable to advance through the spreading dark
- John 1:10–11 — came to his own and was not received; the non-reception of the light as the doctrinal formula for Grace’s immobility
- Isaiah 5:4 — what more was there to do for my vineyard; divine provision met with fruitlessness
- Song of Songs 8:6–7 — love as fire that cannot be quenched but is made “as though dead” by creatures who love something else
- Revelation 3:15–16 — lukewarmness as the state that renders Grace immobile as effectively as open rejection
- Isaiah 29:13 — lips honoring, heart far away; the lip-service piety of the religious/pious who immobilize Grace
- Matthew 7:21–23 — not everyone who says Lord Lord; religious performance without will-surrender immobilizing Grace
- Romans 1:21–25 — exchanged God for idols; the theological genealogy of the self-as-idol pattern
- Ezekiel 14:3 — idols taken into the heart; interior idolatry as the precise form of Grace’s displacement
- Hosea 2:5 — going after other lovers; the creature loving something else rendered in the prophetic idiom
- John 15:4–5 — abide in the vine; the DW as the abiding condition for Grace’s unobstructed motion
- Romans 8:26–27 — the Spirit interceding without ceasing; Grace “always having something to do” in the DW soul
- Proverbs 8:30–31 — Wisdom’s perpetual rejoicing before God; the “always in feast” of Grace in the DW soul
- 2 Corinthians 6:1 — not receiving grace in vain; the DW soul as the one in whom Grace cannot be rendered vain
- 1 Corinthians 15:10 — grace of God not in vain; Paul’s lived experience of the grace-not-in-vain condition
- John 1:12–13 — born not of flesh but of God; the structural description of the DW soul as born of the divine will alone
- John 3:5–6 — born of water and Spirit; the Spirit-birth that is continuous in the DW soul
- 1 John 3:9 — God’s seed abiding; the indwelling seed as the ground of continuous birth
- Galatians 4:19 — birth-pangs until Christ is formed; the ongoing formation as the content of the continuous birth
- Isaiah 66:9 — shall I bring to the point of birth and not cause to bring forth; the divine fidelity guaranteeing the birth’s continuity
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 — new creation; the perpetual new-ness of the DW soul in the continuous birth
ADDITIONS — HERS
Hogan does not supply additional scriptural citations beyond the two shared texts. Her commentary provides pastoral elaboration and cultural application (autolatry, the selfie as image of self-worship) without adding to the scriptural apparatus. No Hogan-only additions to register.
VIP / SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS
No VIP designations. Hogan uses elevated but not formal language.
STAGE TWO SYNTHESIS
The entry’s combined biblical witness is anchored almost entirely on Stage One identifications, with Hogan providing two load-bearing confirmations (John 3:19–21, Ephesians 4:30) that stage One independently reached. The Johannine corpus carries the heaviest weight: John 3:19–21 (choosing darkness), John 1:5 (light shining in resisting darkness), John 1:10–11 (not received), John 15:4–5 (abiding and fruitfulness), John 1:12–13 and 3:5–6 (birth from God/Spirit) converge on both halves of the entry. The entry is fundamentally a Johannine meditation on the reception and non-reception of the divine Word/Light/Life, with Paul’s Ephesians 4:30 supplying the pneumatological term for the divine pain (grieving the Spirit) and the Pauline birth-texts (Galatians 4:19, 2 Corinthians 5:17, 1 John 3:9) supplying the vocabulary of continuous divine generation. The Old Testament contributes the idolatry-of-the-heart tradition (Ezekiel 14:3, Romans 1:21–25, Isaiah 29:13) for the self-as-idol movement, establishing that the entry’s most theologically radical claim — the self placed in Grace’s position as life and idol — has a continuous scriptural genealogy from Hosea through Paul.
Cross-Entry Synthesis
Volume 17 — July 20, 1925 “The immobility in which Grace finds itself. Sorrow of Jesus. The soul who lives in the Divine Will is the favorite of Grace.”
Grace Paralyzed — The Harrowing Immobility
The entry’s pedagogical method is characteristic of Volume 17 at its most precise: Jesus enacts in Luisa’s body the experience he wants to name, so she arrives at the theology through sensation before explanation. The immobility — feeling life but unable to move, feeling pain but unable to writhe — is the somatic form of what Grace experiences from the receiving side of human refusal.
Three modalities of Grace’s immobilization are named in sequence. As light, Grace is paralyzed by the darkness creatures spread — John 3:19–21 (creatures choosing darkness rather than light) and John 1:10–11 (the world not receiving what it was made through) are the governing Johannine texts, both independently identified and confirmed by Hogan. The precision of the entry’s formulation — darkness spreading to paralyze the light, not merely to be present alongside it — corresponds to John 3:19’s “judgment” language: the choice of darkness is an active decision that has consequences for the Light’s capacity to operate. John 1:5’s “the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it” supplies the counter-note: Grace is not destroyed in its immobility; it retains its life and motion, just as the light was not extinguished. The paralysis is the creature’s condition, not Grace’s ontological defeat.
As love, Grace is rendered “as though dead” by creatures loving something else — Song of Songs 8:6–7 (the fire of divine love whose flames cannot be quenched from within but are made inert when the beloved turns away) frames the affective register. Ephesians 4:30 — both Stage One and Hogan’s most significant citation — names the theological term for this harrowing state: the Holy Spirit can be grieved, and the grief of the Spirit is the precise doctrinal formula for what Jesus describes as the “most harrowing pain” of Grace’s immobility.
The sharpest new formulation is the self-as-idol: “in the place of Grace, they put their own self as life and as their own idol.” This is not merely the exclusion of Grace but its replacement — the self occupying the structural position Grace was meant to fill. Ezekiel 14:3 (idols taken into the heart) names this as interior idolatry; Romans 1:21–25 (exchanging the truth of God for a lie, worshiping the creature) supplies the Pauline genealogy. Hogan’s pastoral term — “autolatry,” the idolization of the self — captures the cultural form of what the entry names as the theological problem. Isaiah 29:13 and Matthew 7:21–23 identify the religious/pious version of the same immobilization: the soul that performs external observance while clinging to self-satisfaction in holy things is rendering Grace as immobile as the openly irreligious, because the human will is equally operative in both cases. Revelation 3:15–16 (the lukewarm whom the Lord will spit out) names the affective mode of this religious self-idolatry: not cold rejection but the tepidity of sufficient comfort that leaves no room for Grace’s full motion.
The DW Soul as Grace’s Favorite — Continuous Birth from the Supreme Will
The contrast is absolute and structurally precise: everything that immobilizes Grace in the resistant creature is the exact inverse of what the DW soul provides. Where the resistant creature spreads darkness, the DW soul is the space where Grace “is always in motion, always in feast, always has something to do.” John 15:4–5 is the governing vine-branch parallel: the branch abiding in the vine is the structural condition in which Grace flows unimpeded; the DW soul’s abiding in the DW is the fullest form of this abiding, making the fruitfulness continuous rather than seasonal.
Proverbs 8:30–31’s Wisdom figure — daily delight, always rejoicing before the Lord, delighting in the inhabited world — supplies the register of Grace-in-feast: the DW soul’s condition mirrors the Wisdom that perpetually rejoices in the divine presence and in humanity. Romans 8:26–27 identifies the pneumatological content of Grace “always having something to do”: the Spirit’s unceasing intercession “with groanings too deep for words” is the divine activity that never falls idle in the soul who gives it full access. The DW soul’s role as Grace’s “little secretary, in whom it places the secrets of its sorrows and of its joys” connects to the Spirit’s intercessory work — she receives the Spirit’s interior movements as the trusted recipient of what Grace confides.
The closing formulation — “she is nothing other than the continuous birth from my Supreme Will” — receives the most comprehensive biblical apparatus. John 1:12–13 (born of God rather than of flesh or human will), John 3:5–6 (born of the Spirit), 1 John 3:9 (God’s seed abiding in the one born of God), and Galatians 4:19 (the ongoing birth-pangs of Christ’s formation) together constitute the New Testament’s birth-from-God tradition at its fullest. The DW soul does not stand at the end of this tradition as its highest exemplar — she embodies its continuous form: the birth that in every other believer is a single transformative event becomes, in the soul who has fully surrendered to the DW, a perpetual present-tense reality. Isaiah 66:9 (“shall I bring to the point of birth and not cause to bring forth?”) grounds the continuity in divine fidelity: the Lord will not interrupt the birth he has initiated. 2 Corinthians 5:17 (the new creation in which the old continuously passes and the new continuously comes) names the experiential texture of this continuous birth from the soul’s own side — the permanent freshness of one who is always newly born.
Synthesis Conclusion
Dominant biblical imagination: The entry is a sustained Johannine meditation on light, life, and reception — John 1:5, 1:10–11, 3:5–6, 3:19–21, and 15:4–5 provide the framework for both halves of the entry, establishing the same structural tension in positive and negative: the light that shines into darkness and is not received (Grace paralyzed) and the branch abiding in the vine and bearing much fruit (Grace unobstructed). Ephesians 4:30 is the single most load-bearing extra-Johannine text, providing the Spirit’s own term for the pain of being rendered immobile by human resistance.
Most load-bearing traditions: The idolatry-of-the-heart tradition (Ezekiel 14:3, Romans 1:21–25) is the most important Stage One contribution not matched by Hogan — it grounds the entry’s most theologically radical claim (self-as-idol in Grace’s place) in a continuous biblical genealogy that shows this is not a novel spiritual problem but the oldest and deepest form of the human departure from God. The birth-from-God tradition (John 1:12–13, 3:5–6, 1 John 3:9, Galatians 4:19, Isaiah 66:9) supplies the comprehensive scriptural ground for the entry’s final formulation, showing that the DW soul’s “continuous birth from the Supreme Will” is the perpetual-present-tense form of what the entire New Testament describes as the single entry into divine sonship.
Most theologically significant findings: Three findings carry the greatest weight. First, Ephesians 4:30 — the shared load-bearer — establishes that the IAD-1 doctrine’s extension to Grace as such (not only Christ personally but Grace itself experiencing the harrowing pain of immobility) has direct pneumatological grounding: the Spirit that is Grace can be grieved, making the entry’s teaching not an isolated mystical claim but a biblical category. Second, the self-as-idol formulation is the most theologically concentrated DWE-1 statement in Volume 17: the human will does not merely obstruct Grace but usurps its position, placing the self in the structural role Grace was meant to occupy — which is the logical terminus of every DWE-1 register in the corpus. Third, the “continuous birth from my Supreme Will” formulation advances NBD-1 to its most structurally precise form: what the entire New Testament names as the single birth-from-God is disclosed as, in the DW soul, a continuous present-tense act — the birth never completed into a past event but always happening in the soul who is perpetually surrendered to the Will that continuously generates her.
Observation Notes
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17-1925-07-20
IAD-1 — Grace-immobility / harrowing-pain form (new register): “My Grace feels the most harrowing pain because of the state of immobility in which creatures put it.” Prior IAD-1 registers addressed the divine pain as Christ’s personal suffering: Passion-of-Love / foundational (October 30, 1924); five-deaths / universalized (December 1, 1924); yearning-and-supplicating (April 15, 1925); eternal-sorrow-of-living-unknown / three-level taxonomy (May 1, 1925); drove-Me-away / pursuit form (May 4, 1925). July 20 extends IAD-1 to Grace as such — the pain is not Christ’s personally but Grace itself in its three modalities: as light paralyzed by spreading darkness, as love made dead by creatures loving something else, as life unable to give life. The harrowing pain names the experiential state of Grace when rendered immobile. Ephesians 4:30 (grieving the Holy Spirit) is the pneumatological governing text; Song of Songs 8:6–7 governing the love-made-dead register.
DWE-1 — self-as-idol / autolatry form (new register — most theologically radical DWE-1 statement in corpus): “In the place of Grace, they put their own self as life and as their own idol.” Prior DWE-1 registers: heaven-loss-per-abandoned-act (February 15, 1925); bar-per-act / gate-per-act (February 22, 1925); void-in-the-light (March 1, 1925); Life-prevention / most-Christological (March 15, 1925); corruption-as-cloud / ray-penetration-blocked (May 21, 1925). July 20 advances to the most theologically radical form: the human will does not merely obstruct Grace or create an absence — it usurps Grace’s structural position, placing the self in the role Grace was meant to occupy. This is DWE-1 as interior idolatry. Ezekiel 14:3 (idols taken into the heart), Romans 1:21–25 (exchanging God for creature-worship) governing.
NBD-1 — continuous-birth / Supreme-Will form: “She is nothing other than the continuous birth from my Supreme Will.” Most recent NBD-1 was universal-conception / sips-of-Life-nourishment (May 1, 1925). July 20 opens the most structurally precise NBD-1 formulation: the DW soul is defined as a continuous birth from the Supreme Will — the single birth-from-God that the New Testament describes as the entry into divine sonship (John 1:12–13, John 3:5–6, 1 John 3:9) is, in the DW soul, a perpetual present-tense act. The birth is never completed into a past event but always occurring in the soul who is continuously surrendered to the Will that generates her. Isaiah 66:9 governing the divine fidelity guaranteeing the birth’s continuity.