166. The Lord created everything by means of the alive sun and nothing by means of the lifeless sun, and this can be seen from the fact that something alive disposes what is lifeless to compliance with itself and forms it to serve the uses which it has as its goals. This does not occur, however, in reverse. To think that everything is due to nature, and that even life is due to it, is possible only to one bereft of reason. Such a one does not know what life is. Nature cannot impart life to anything, for nature in itself is totally inert. Something lifeless impelling something alive, or a lifeless force impelling a living force, or to say the equivalent, something natural impelling something spiritual, is totally contrary to order, and therefore to entertain the thought is contrary to the sight of sound reason. It is possible, indeed, for something lifeless or natural to be perverted or altered in many ways by extraneous events, but still it cannot impel life, but is impelled by life in accordance with the induced alteration in form. The case is identical with that of physical influx into the spiritual operations of the soul-something known not to occur because it is not possible.