“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, ‘Do it again’; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. “For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, ‘Do it again’ to the sun; and every evening, ‘Do it again’ to the moon.

🧵 Right now here's approximately where my mind is on baptism and the efficacy thereof. This unpolished as I am falling asleep, so pardon anything weird:
• Baptism is connected to both internal/spiritual and external/temporal effects. • The external effects correspond to, signify, and are gifts betokening of the internal effects.
• The external effects are "automatic" (ex opere operato???) upon the performance of the rite, since the rite itself is external.