2596. Those things, as well as the things imparted to us by the Lord through that most occult reflective activity, because not by a reflection undertaken by ourselves, still less ever revealed to us, are from the Lord and not from any other. Consequently it is a gift of the Lord, so that human beings cannot boast one whit that they are human, or that the ability to think, let alone to be regenerated, is theirs. 1748, 13 July.