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to mystic institute.org. So I like to divide up, and people have their different ways of

dividing up, depending upon their anthropology, but I like to divide up amongst physical things

and emotional things and emotional things and

psychological things and spiritual things.

And obviously, that's not like, you know, four pieces of a pie because, as you notice,

there's some overlap.

There's always going to be overlap because the lower, as Father James was describing with

respect to angelic power is contained in the higher.

Right. So the soul possesses the body. Right. So bodily things, you know, physical things

are going to be, you know, resonating through or kind of pulsing through spiritual things, right?

Which is the reason for which we can't simply leave them aside or abstract them

in silly ways. All right, but I think it can be helpful just to divide amongst physical things

and emotional things, psychological things, and spiritual things. And you can see how this cashes out

in something simple like forgiveness, for instance. Say that you want to forgive someone and in the presence of the blessed

sacrament, let's say that this person has died. Okay. So it's not something that you're

necessarily going to work out with them in flesh and kind of living communion in the here

and now. But in the presence of the blessed sacrament, you know, you say, Lord, I ask for

the grace to forgive. I choose to forgive. And then maybe you name the person and say,

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