St. Justin Martyr on the Stoics & the Seed of Reason [Logos Spermatikos]

 And those of the Stoic school—since, so far as their moral teaching went, they were admirable, as were also the poets in some particulars, on account of the seed of reason [the Logos] implanted in every race of men—were, we know, hated and put to death,—Heraclitus for instance, and, among those of our own time, Musonius and others. For, as we intimated, the devils have always effected, that all those who anyhow live a reasonable and earnest life, and shun vice, be hated. And it is nothing wonderful; if the devils are proved to cause those to be much worse hated who live not according to a part only of the word diffused [among men] but by the knowledge and contemplation of the whole Word, which is Christ. And they, having been shut up in eternal fire, shall suffer their just punishment and penalty. For if they are even now overthrown by men through the name of Jesus Christ, this is an intimation of the punishment in eternal fire which is to be inflicted on themselves and those who serve them. For thus did both all the prophets foretell, and our own teacher Jesus teach.*

Martyr, Justin. The Writings of Justin Martyr (Annotated) (p. 83). Logia. Kindle Edition. 

There are actually two very remarkable things about this passage: 

First, that he freely grants that every race of man has within it the Logos, and he specifically acknowledges the Stoics of the Hellenic world as possessing Logos. Obviously, we can now consider that various Eastern masters like Confucius and Lao-tzu are potential bearers of the Logos, and we can further imagine that the Buddha himself and various Indian and Sikh masters had something of the Logos. 

Second, and perhaps more amazingly and seldom discussed, we see that the devils hate all who live reasonably and earnestly, shunning vice. 

The devils themselves are actively working to drive men to hatred of those who have any nobility to them to live a life according to good reason, and it is these men who literally put to death even Stoics out of their own madness. 

St. Just Martyr doesn't just imply that those who live in the light of proper virtue and rationality can be open to salvation even if they could not know Christ, but that they will be persecuted by the devils just like Christ. 

It is the nature of the demonic to tear down goodness wherever and however it can, and to mobilize and empower men to take over institutions so as to inflict moral & spiritual damage on the righteous. 

1.5 Sextillion Molecules & the Chemical Pregnancy

This is probably the "trippiest" thing I have ever written. Bear with me.  

According to thoughtco, there are 1.5 sextillion molecules in a drop of water (0.05 ml), which equals out to about 5 sextillion atoms per droplet. These are, of course, nonsense numbers. They hardly mean anything to us. But, it goes, of course, from million to billion to trillion to quadrillion to quintillion to sextillion. Technically, I think a 'sextillion' can qualify as a 'zillion.' 

Inside the drop of water, the molecular bonds are constantly breaking and reforming as they rush past one another. The lifetime of the bonds between molecules is short due to its constant movement. This means that water essentially is constantly breaking and reforming in its journeys, and the hydrogen and oxygen atoms even end up exchanging atoms as the molecules dissociate.

The kinetic energy of water is part of the process of dissolution.

When a crystal of sodium chloride is placed into water, the water's molecules collide with the crystal lattice. Recall that the crystal lattice is composed of alternating positive and negative ions. Water is attracted to the sodium chloride crystal because water is polar and has both a positive and a negative end. The positively charged sodium ions in the crystal attract the oxygen end of the water molecules because they are partially negative. The negatively charged chloride ions in the crystal attract the hydrogen end of the water molecules because they are partially positive. The action of the polar water molecules takes the crystal lattice apart (see image below).

 After coming apart from the crystal, the individual ions are then surrounded by solvent particles in a process called solvation.

 

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 Water is often called the 'universal solvent' because throughout nature and within our bodies it is constantly attracting and dissolving many different types of molecules. It acts as a solvent for  not for nonpolar ones. 

Regardless, it's easy to see that water is constantly at work, constantly forming and restrucuring... 

And these nonsense, giant number of water molecules in a single droplet are very meaningful... 

These little droplets form great bodies of water, and when the droplets enter, they form the teeming surge that is water. They constantly form new bonds with other molecules and flow, saying goodbye to one another and carrying on their long journey through the cosmos... 

And so what does it mean when a woman has a fertilized egg that fails to implant... and we have an ensouled life that does not "enter" the world? What does it mean for the baby in the womb that sadly perishes before it becomes a newborn? 

It means that they knew a microcosm within their mother, and through the interaction this interaction they leave behind their traces written in water, the recordless universal witness & interpenetrator. 

The Bible speaks of this:

6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.

7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. (1 John 5:6-8)

The tiny soul in the tiny body of the embyro was an Existent whose miniscule form is adequate, as its dissolution into the greater whole and experience upon earth is a powerful demonstration of the concept of life's interpenetration... 

For its mark dissolves and flows through the world, as the blood and the water in the arena of our struggles.  

Perhaps this cannot be seen easily from a materialistic perspective in terms of its significance, but it is indisputable that, on the molecular level, we are in a constant, shifting state of interbeing & interflowing, and it is this flowing through one another through commonality of substance and matter that illustrates the profundity of any form of life, no matter how temporary.