of the freedom of the will which had most notably to be conferred on an intellectual creature by the kindness of the Creator, he has given them the ability and the will to know and love him in such a way that each one is able both to have it and to lose it. But, if anyone of his own will were to lose it, from then on, he would not be able to regain it on his own initiative. In order that he might again be willing to infuse the beginnings of holy thought, by the gratuitous gift of free goodness, into