These teachings bring us the knowledge of what is the end of Mankind as a specific end, meaning the vision and fruition of God, considered according to the details that make this end desirable: the fact that it will be gained, after the resurrection, by immortal man, both in his soul and in his body, forever.

—JOHN DUNS SCOTUS, PROLOGUE TO THE ORDINATIO

Electricity resembles an effort on the part of matter to become spirit. One might say that matter, through electricity, tries to achieve ecstasy.

—ERNEST HELLO