Manifold blessings (ICA)

This is a surprised acknowledgement that every gift and foolishness, every friend and enemy, every passion and passivity, makes the situation the rich thing that it is. It occurs when one accepts all factors as significant, as in being thankful for an enemy who has made things difficult, or the unexpected interventions that have made plans for action useless.

In the New Religious Mode in the arena of acting out one's freedom (the life of prayer) the second formal aspect is affirmation of one's dependence or gratitude. At the third phenomenological level this occurs when one acknowledges that which is beyond one's power to control.