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the “coming to be” of the effect, its being “made” or produced by the cause, is not merely passive. This dependence is an active receptivity on the part of the effect.
Any being can be only by actively receiving its identifying determination, which is to say by performing the act-of-existing in its proper way, by enacting or “living out” its constitutive nature.