individual parts. The membranes enclose the individual parts, creating
such a thorough connection that they become part of each other. This
is accomplished through a common membrane around every unit in
the body. This membrane wraps around the individual parts inside so
that they act in a unified way to do whatever function or service that
unit provides.
For example, the membrane around each muscle extends between
individual motor fibers and wraps them with itself. The membrane
around the liver, the membrane around the pancreas, and the mem-
brane around the spleen also extend into the smaller parts inside these
organs. The membrane around the lungs, called the pleura, extends in a
similar way into the individual parts inside the lungs, as the pericardium
also extends into each and every part of the heart. Likewise the peri-
toneum in general goes through anastomoses [points of communication]
to join with all the membranes around individual organs. The same is
also true of the meninges, the membranes around the brain. Using pro-
jecting filaments, these membranes extend into all the glands below, and
extend through the glands into fibers, and through the fibers into every
single thing in the body. This is how the head uses the brains to control
everything under its power.
The sole purpose in mentioning these examples is to show you
observable phenomena, so that you may have some idea of how God is
aware of, sees, and knows everything down to the least detail that hap-
pens in keeping with the divine design.
From what occurs in keeping with the divine design, God is aware of, 61
knows, and sees everything down to the least detail that is done against
the divine design.
When people are involved in evil, God does not hold them there; he
holds them back from evil. He does not lead them; he struggles against
them. He perceives the quantity and quality of evil and falsity from their
constant wrestling, striving, struggling, fighting, and pushing back
against his own good and truth, and therefore against himself. This
comes from God’s omnipresence in everything of his own design as well
as his complete knowledge of everything in that design.
By analogy, when your ear focuses on harmony and on sounds that
are in tune, and then something discordant or out of tune occurs, you
notice precisely how wrong and how far off it is. A similar awareness
occurs when you focus on some pleasure and then some unpleasant sen-
sation interrupts.
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