This is certainly done by an act, but by an immanent act that produces nothing material in our substance by an act that in this case does not even require of the true cause some material effect in us, neither new ideas nor sensations, in short, that is, by an act that does nothing and makes the general cause do nothing insofar as it is general, disregarding His justice, for the soul's inactivity, like the body's, has no force or material efficacy.