107. If there were not this receptivity on a person’s part, and thought then as though of himself, nothing could be said about faith, for faith comes not from man. A person would otherwise be like straw in the wind, or like someone standing seemingly lifeless, with mouth open and hands hanging down, awaiting influx, thinking nothing and doing nothing in matters having to do with his salvation. He is, indeed, not the actor in these matters, but still he is the reactor, reacting as though of himself.
But this will be presented in a still clearer light in treatises titled Angelic Wisdom.
