Essays in Idleness

Nature is defined by death. We cannot be sure that a being or phenomenon is natural, until it dies. Nature, of course, fills all our history, which documents the formerly alive. The supernature?

The tremendous mystery of the living God: the Father the Creator, the Son the Redeemer, the Holy Spirit the Sanctifier, and the triune life reflected in the unity of the Church — who can understand this? The formula of words has been kept relatively simple, but I, at least, become confused, when I try to comprehend this schematization. But the Church has made it comprehensible for us, by her prayer. It is part of faith, one might be told, to understand what cannot be understood, unless partially, in the prospect of Heaven.

There are, according to the “A.I. overview,” approximately six hundred neurological diseases and disorders, all of which conclude in death. Each is perfectly natural. We should be content, only with a few.