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[What about self-donation?]<\/p>\n
In the same way that sins may lead to the final impenitence, basic moral acts may lead to the total self-donation and eternal reward.\u00a0 But the virtuous person is not going it alone.\u00a0 The Council of Trent talks about the special graces of perseverance.<\/p>\n
[This is because, with every step upwards, there is a possibility of slipping back.\u00a0 Every illumination offers the opportunity for reification, the fixation of an illumination into a thinkgroup<\/sup>, lessons that tell people what they want to hear.<\/p>\n For grades of grace, the vertical nested form {thinkdivine<\/sup>(virtuous action(consciencefree<\/sup>))} trains the dispositions.\u00a0 A significant feature of training is desensitizing oneself to partial objects.\u00a0 Supernatural wisdom is needed in order to discern thinkdivine<\/sup> from the variety of partial objects through which God may be appreciated.\u00a0 Consciencefree<\/sup> and the dispositions learn to work together.\u00a0 Grace magically changes the possibilities of discernment and thus, the selection of human action.<\/p>\n Analogies between \u201cgrades of grace\u201d and \u201cgrades of disgrace\u201d break down because the dispositions respond to partial objects, not the whole object. No matter how hard one trains, each new good appears as a good in itself; that is, a temptation for idolatry.<\/p>\n Life is easier for grades of disgrace. Thinkgroup<\/sup> substitutes a partial object for the whole.\u00a0 Thinkgroup<\/sup> trains our dispositions to fixate, rather than to step back.\u00a0 How difficult is that?<\/p>\n Talk to any Professor in a Multiversity for a demonstration.\u00a0 They have selected one another for employment on the basis of the intensity of their fixations.\u00a0 Each department is ideologically pure.\u00a0 The conversation will always turn to the Professor and ‘his’ fixation.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summary of text [comment] page 39 [What about self-donation?] In the same way that sins may lead to the final impenitence, basic moral acts may lead to the total self-donation and eternal reward.\u00a0 But the virtuous person is not going it alone.\u00a0 The Council of Trent talks about the special graces of perseverance. [This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n