THE SUPERNATURAL LIFE elevated: in other words, it can get at truth in a higher way: it can now believe upon the word of God, that is, it has the supernatural virtue of faith. The will likewise retains its object — namely, goodness— but its action is elevated from love in the natural order to supernatural love, that is, it has the supernatural virtue of charity^ by which it loves God and makes the love of God the rooj: of all its other loves and therefore of all its other actions. And the will is rendered capable of another supernatural action — the action of hope : that is, of aspiring to God in reliance upon His power and His goodness. The Supernatural Life of man’s soul might then be set out as follows : FACULTY. VIRTUE. ACTION. OBJECT.* ( INTELLECT . . . FAITH. . to believe . . .GOD SOUL 1 WILL • r HOPE . . . to hope . . .GOD [ CHARITY, to love . . .GOD Yet the full activity of the Supernatural Life is not in this world. Its completion is in the next. The intellect will then see God direct: it will know him face to face. This direct seeing of God is by a double title supernatural. No created being — man or angel — could by his own powers have direct vision of God, the gulf between Creator and creature being measureless. And man cannot by his own powers * It will be noted that God is not here shown as the Supreme Object of Hqp^ and but as their Object. He is their ^le Object; they have no other. Hence their name — Theological Virtues. 123