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124 (which has, doubtless, also a mystical power, as being word, and operates as such on the human soul, independently of, and above its containing Divine truth, yet is not a direct means of union with  in ): the Sacraments are in no other way efficacious, contribute nothing in addition to the written word : the words of consecration are of no other avail than by teaching; by teaching alone does the dead element begin to be a Sacrament.