50. All that they say about the Holy Spirit falls to the ground as soon as it is believed that man is not life, but only an organ of life, and thus that God is constantly present in man, and that He strives, acts and urges that those things which relate to religion, and consequently those relating to the Church, to heaven and salvation, shall be received. It is, therefore, vain to say that the Holy Spirit is "given," or that it is "withheld." For the Holy Spirit is nothing else than the Divine which proceeds out of the Lord from the Father, and this Divine constitutes man's life, and also his understanding and love; and the presence of this Divine is perpetual. Without the presence of the Lord, or of the Holy Spirit, man would be only a kind of animal; but he would have no more life than salt, a stone or a log. The reason of this is, that man is not born with instinct, like the beasts; wherefore, a chick of one day old knows the order of its life better than an infant.