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Rather, the truth is numinously present and grasped connaturally; in the intuition of the gratuitous orderliness of the world, we discern that there is more to existence than science can ever capture.
Man is theoretically able to direct his efforts toward attaining his proper end "connaturally." In other words, abstractly considered, the human person could genuinely work toward being what he is made to be.
(68) On the ethical plane, connaturality implies a "felt resonance" between actor and ethical act or between actor and object of the act; on the mystical axis, God is known and willed connaturally through an "attunement with the divine (the res divinae), the sacred, the holy." (69) So Tallon can describe connaturality as "the attunement of the agent" to "the ethical and mystical good" through repeated acts of knowing and loving, by which one becomes "co-naturalized to the co-responding good." (70)
Thus, "philosophical wisdom cannot contradict the perceptions of the connaturally wise person" (p.