Propositions "V" 1


THE FIRST PART OF THE PROPOSITIONS OF V.

Faith B.
1. Faith is a virtue in which the will supposes both possibility and impossibility in order to raise the level of the intellect.
2. Faith is the light of the grace of essential will, through which the intellect receives its light from essential intelligence in order to see its own light per se.
3. Since essential intelligence influences the intellect, and the intellect transmits its likeness to prudence through acquisition, essential will must necessarily transmit the influence of its likeness to faith through infusion.

Hope C.
1. Hope is a likeness of essential memory, through which Charity and Justice show their figures in the virtue of Hope.
2. Since there are both Justice and Mercy in God, Hope is a habit made of Charity and Fear.
3. Since God is active in godness, greatness, eternity etc., Hope can be exalted and magnified.

Charity D.
1. Charity never uses Prudence to repulse the influence of essential memory and essential intelligence.
2. Since God is equally to be loved and understood, He created equality between Wisdom and Charity.
3. Essential will grows so greatly in the light of essential intelligence, that Charity can always be increased in this way.

Justice E. 
1. Essential memory, essential intelligence and essential will produce S. through the virtue of Justice, so that S. may produce Justice through B.C.D.
2. Through Justice, S. transmits to B.C.D. the influence of equally justified virtue, but B.C.D. do not always equate in E.
3. Justtice always contradicts injury more strongly with great wisdom, than with little wisdom.

Prudence F.
1. In the viryue of Prudence, the intellect obtains its likeness through deliberation, the will through choice nd the memory through conservation.

2. Wherever Prudence is absent, the purpose of B.C.D.F.G.H. is absent.
3. Hope and Charity never lack Prudence.

Fortitude F.
1. Fortitude displays the power that creates essential memory, essential intelligence and essential will.
2. The soul's fortitude cannot be compelled to do anything against its will.
3. The destruction of Fortitude is possible because of the freedom of B.C.
D.E.F.G.H.M.

Temperance G.
1. Temperance of the senses produces a likeness of that spiritual Temperance through which E. is constituted by B.C.D.
2. Temperance never acts without Hope, Charity, Justice, Prudence and Fortitude.
3. Constant perseverance in Temperance is a likeness of the frequentation of the virtue of esential memory, essential intellect and essential will.

 



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