ABSTRACT
Human nature is so arranged that a desire of the soul has no reality in the soul until it has passed through the flesh by means of actions, movements, and stances which naturally correspond to it. It is there only as a phantom. It does not act upon the soul. But even if the exercise of the will can, to however limited an extent, prevent the soul from falling into evil, it cannot in itself increase the proportion of good relative to evil within the soul. Wherever it is certain that a thing indispensable to salvation is impossible, it is certain that a supernatural possibility really exists. Being the absolute good in relation to the flesh does not mean it is a good of the flesh. In relation to the flesh it is the absolute good of the spirit. A convention relating to human things here below can be concluded and endorsed between men, or between a man and himself.
