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C. Operation
1. Because there is intrinsic operation in God, intrinsic
operations are always nobler than extrinsic ones.
2. Every operation has a purpose.
3. All extrinsic operations are influenced by intrinsic operations.
4. Operations can be optimized and desired as they are understood.
5. Every intellectual power operates by producing likenesses
of itself .
6. The intellect influences the will with its light just as
the will influences the intellect with charity.
7. No natural operation works against itself.
8. All natural operations proceed within substance and influence
accidents.
9. All natural operations proceed continuously from universals
to particulars.
10. Whatever God does outside of himself, He does artificially.
11. God artificially creates work and man puts it to use.
12. No human being can produce an artificial form from nothingness. |
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