Consequently, according to this explanation, memory and the other habits of pure intelligences would consist not in a facility of operation resulting from certain modifications of their being but in an immutable order of God, and in a right the mind acquires over the things that have already been submitted to it; and the mind's whole power would depend immediately and solely on God alone, with the force or facility tor acting that all creatures find in their operations being in this sense only the efficacious will of the Creator.