Third Distinction
Second Part - Questions about Angels1. Question: Do angels exist? Solution: go to the Definitions of Goodness, Greatness, Majority, and to Rules B, C, G and H in the first and second Distinctions.
2. Question: Can one angel generate another? Solution: go to the second distinction, the second paragraph in the part on Rule B.
3. Question: Does an angel move on its own? Solution: go to the second species of Rule C.
4. Question: Does an angel have innate species with which it acts upon things here below? Solution: go to the fourth paragraph in the part on Rule B in the second distinction.
5. Question: Does an angel see, hear and move physical things with and within its own innate species? Solution: go to the fourth paragraph in the part on Rule B in the second distinction.
6. Question: Does an angel participate in things below effectively with its innate species like an efficient cause in its effect? Solution: go to the fifth paragraph in the part on Rule B in the second distinction.
7. Question: Are physical things inherently proportioned to the innate species of angels? Solution: go to the seventh paragraph in the part on Rule B in the second distinction.
8. Question: Is an angel made of angelic parts? Solution: go to the eighth paragraph in the part on Rule B, to Rules C and D and to the first species of Rule E in the second distinction.
9. Question: Is the devil evil by necessity or by contingency? Solution: go to the ninth paragraph in the part on Rule B in the second distinction and to the definition of Minority.
10. Question: Does a good angel merit glory necessarily or by contingency? Solution: go to the ninth paragraph in the part on Rule B in the second distinction and to the definition of Majority.
11. Question: What is an angel? Solution: Go to the first paragraph in the part on Rule C in the second distinction.
12. Question: What coessential and natural things does an angel have in itself? Solution: Go to the second paragraph in the part on Rule C in the second distinction.
13. Question: What is an angel in its effect and what is it in its Greatness? Solution: Go to the third paragraph in the part on Rule C in the second distinction.
14. Question: What is an angel's Greatness? Solution: Go to the definition of Greatness in the second distinction.
15. Question: What is an angel's Power? Solution: Go to the definition of Power in the second distinction.
16. Question: What does an angel have in other things? Solution: Go to the fourth species of rule C in the second distinction.
17. Question: What does an angel consist of? Solution: go to the first and second species of Rule D in the first distinction.
18. Question: What does an angel's willing consist of? Solution: Go to the second species of Rule D in the first distinction.
19. Question: Why do angels exist? Solution: go to the first and second species of Rule E in the first distinction.
20. Question: What quantity does an angel have? Solution: go to Rule F in the first distinction.
21. Question: What qualities does an angel have? Solution: go to Rule G in the first distinction.
22. Question: When did the angels come into being? Solution: go to Rule H in the first distinction.
23. Question: Where are the angels? Solution: go to Rule I in the first distinction.
24. Question: How and with what does an angel exist? Solution: go to Rule K in the first distinction.We have solved questions about the angels by referring to the above loci, sometimes literally, sometimes through likenesses, and other questions about angels can be solved in the same way.