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2. Angels
2. The Second Subject, or Angels
Angels can be discussed with the
principles and the rules. An angel has
natural goodness, greatness, duration etc.
And it is defined as follows: an angel is a
spirit not joined to a body.
In an angel there is no natural contrariety,
because it is incorruptible. The matter in
an angel is made of passive correlatives,
like the bonifiable, the magnifiable etc. as
signified by the second species of D.
In an angel there is majority, because it is
more similar to God than to man. And
here the intellect realizes that if man
cannot use sensible objects without
organs, this does not mean that an angel
cannot act without any organ, because
angelic nature is superior. And here the
intellect realizes that angels can speak to
each other and act on us without any
organ, and transit from place to place
without any medium, and so forth, as can
be seen in the discussion of the intellect
with the rules.
There is difference in an angel, as its
intellect, will and memory are different
from each other.
There is equality between understanding,
loving and remembering in an angel, by
reason of its supreme object, namely
God, who is equally to be understood,
loved and remembered.
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