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The ideas of all things are in God

I would like this to be a serious blog.  I admire blogs that are about something, that are focused. Or at least a blog that provides kind of a record of my reading, or thoughts, or something like that.   But in fact, I think I will have to settle for a blog that is like my other past blogs -- a sort of series of freeze-frames, some out of focus, some related to others and some not.   Maybe it will end up making a mosaic -- aren't there those mosaics that when you dive down to granular level are actually individual photos made into tiles?   That actually brings to mind what I was reading this morning -- St Thomas Aquinas on Ideas -- this is from Msr Glenn's Tour of the Summa, which is available online.    He says: An idea or concept is the mind's grasp of an essence. It is the understanding of what a definition means. Thus the idea  human being  is the mind's grasp of human being as such. It is the mind's grasp in one act of understa...

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