Father, thank you that your gracious hands are upon me. I know I have an advantage. I have an edge. Other people may not see it. They may try to push me down and disqualify me. However, that is okay. I know the truth. I have your love I am well able to fulfill my destiny. You looked quite pathetic, dear, stretched out in the hospital cot, that you had me in a grip of worry when I first spotted you! So thin and pale under that sheet, your curls limp on the pillow—I about burst into tears. However, then you opened those eyes, the color of the hills, and said, “There you are,” as if you had been expecting me, and I knew you were fine. I am surprised they discharged you so quickly, but perhaps they wanted to get rid of you after so long. Though after the comments you kept whispering in my blushing ear, I am not surprised. The nurses are nuns. You are lucky they did not speak a word of English. How excellent the Heaven, when Earth cannot be had; how hospitable, then, the face of our antiquated neighbor, God! #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

The daisy follows soft the Sun, and when his golden walk is done, sits shyly at his feet. The Sun enables both terrestrial and celestial bodies to subsist and is the root source of whatever internal dynamism they possess. Lumen is the invisible radiation which has its origin especially in celestial bodies like the Sun but exits in the intervening transparent medium. It is described as being an active power (virtus active) and something substantial in itself but only accidentally related to the transmitting medium through which it flows continually and instantaneously by a self-generative process called multiplication. Being neither accidental nor a substantial form properly speaking, it is not educed from the potentialities of matter as are other corporeal forms, with the exception of lux (light).  Yet it requires some material medium or body and coexists with such without changing it substantially. Not only does it penetrate the bowels of the Earth, where it governs the formation of minerals, but in virtue of its purity and similarity to the spiritual, this substantial radiation disposes bodies to receive the life form and acts as a sort of intermediary between soul and body. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

Light is an active in the reproduction of animals, functioning as one of the external agents that educes the higher form from the matter where they exist as seminal reasons. Seminal reasons are invisible principles inserted by God in the World during creation, which develop in time into all the plants, trees, birds, fishes, animals, and human bodies that will every exist. External agents only cooperate with these powers, in much the way that a gardener cultivates a rosebush or a seedbed so that it bears flowers or germinates. All forms, except the primary light form and the human soul, which are directly created by God, arise through the cooperation of seminal powers and external agents, under the influence of light. The immortal soul (the ethereal machine) is a subtle matter in the pineal gland. The ethereal machine is the germ of the resurrected body. All possible beings, all individuals, were created at once, according to the principle of plenitude. They exist in germ until released by death of other individual organisms. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

The lower souls of animals are perfectible, and the Universe is one in which all things tend to perfection. The principal changes occur as the result of catastrophes. The Earth has passed through a series of epochs, each terminated by a cataclysm that destroyed all organic life except the immortal germs, allowing the germs to take on different forms, all foreseen in the original creation and all ascending to higher levels. Ontogenesis (the development or developmental history of an individual) is proof of this Thus, every germ will reappear in a succession of a higher embodiments, the soul of each waiting until the proper state of the Earth evokes its next and higher incarnation. The entire creation is moving upward; humans will become angels, and apes and elephants will take human’s place. There is also life on other Worlds, more or less advanced in perfection than on Earth.  #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

There is greater good than evil in the Universe, and created things necessarily have a lesser degree of perfection than their creator. Humans are superior to animals in their sensual apparatus, brain, and speech organs; but humans are part of the general, unfolding order of nature. Humans know a Natural Law that is virtual in them, but develops by experience; however, humans are moved by self-love and by passions, which may be beneficent or may be destructive and cruel. In considering the inherited organization more determining then education (experience), God guides the creative process of evolution within the cosmos and the presence that urges each part to respond by further creation. So, God supplies perfectly measured grace to meet the needs of the Godly. For daily needs, there is daily grace; for sudden needs, sudden grace; for overwhelming need, overwhelming grace. God’s grace is given wonderfully, but not wastefully; freely but not foolishly; bountifully but not blindly. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5