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2. Angels
11.2 Questions about the Second
Subject, or Angels
71. Question: do angels exist? And the
answer is yes. Because if things less
similar to God exist, then things more
similar to God must exist all the more.
Further: if things composed of corporeal
and intellectual parts exist, then things
composed of intellectual and intellectual
parts must exist al the more.
Further: if angels did not exist, the ladder
of difference and concordance would be
void, as would be the world, which is
impossible.
72. Question: what is an angel made of,
and to whom does it belong? With rule D
we reply that it exists on its own, as its
essence cannot be punctual or linear. And
by the second species of the same rule, it
consists of its spiritual correlatives,
namely its active, passive and functioning
components. It acts with its active parts, it
is receptive with its passive parts and its
functioning parts make up the act
proceeding between the active and
passive. By the third species we say that
an angel belongs to God. And this is
enough about angels, for brevity's sake.
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