Transient Bodies Are Only Subject To Destruction

Divine Providence Is Connected With Divine Intellectual Influence, And The Same Beings Which Are Benefited By The Latter So As To Become Intellectual, And To Comprehend Things Comprehensible To Rational Beings, Are Also Under The Control Of Divine Providence, Which Examines All Their Deeds With A View Of Rewarding Or Punishing Them. ...the Method Of Which Our Mind Is Incapable Of Understanding.

In Accordance With The Divine Wisdom, Genesis Can Only Take Place Through Destruction, And Without Destruction Of The Individual Members Of The Species The Species Themselves Would Not Exist Permanently. Thus The True Kindness, And Beneficence, And Goodness Of God Is Clear.

The Error Of The Ignorant Goes So Far As To Say That God's Power Is Insufficient, Because He Has Given To This Universe The Properties Which They Imagine Cause These Great Evils, And Which Do Not Help All Evil-disposed Persons To Obtain The Evil Which They Seek, And To Bring Their Evil Souls To The Aim Of Their Desires, Though These, As We Have Shown, Are Really Without Limit.

This Must Be Our Belief When We Have A Correct Knowledge Of Our Own Self, And Comprehend The True Nature Of Everything; We Must Be Content, And Not Trouble Our Mind With Seeking A Certain Final Cause For Things That Have None, Or Have No Other Final Cause But Their Own Existence, Which Depends On The Will Of God, Or, If You Prefer, On The Divine Wisdom.

All This Is Applicable To The Intellectual Faculties Of Man. There Is A Considerable Difference Between One Person And Another As Regards These Faculties, As Is Well Known To Philosophers.