1518. The past is settled . . .

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The past is settled and definite while the future is what we and others are about to settle, to make more definite than it already is.

The possibility for tomorrow consists in (or is entirely determined by) the actuality of today. But the actuality of tomorrow will add determinations not in today's determinations, and thus not in the possibility for tomorrow.

Possibilities are the properties of actualities that they necessarily will be followed by later actualities with new determinations, conditioned, but not fully determined, by earlier actualities.

There are the two aspects of existence, possibility and actuality; and the necessarily existing existent that has both aspects in eminent or unsurpassable form is, in its unactualized possibility, infinite and unlimited, but also completely unactualized, and is, in its actuality, necessarily limited, even if not also fragmentary.

Divine concrescence, or nondivine concrescence, partly in act, partly in potency, is all that reality, actual and possible, can be.

September 1995