The figure of Theology is perceived by the senses and imagination just like the other figures, as shown in the initial pages. However it is perceived by the intellect in particular by way of plurality, and universally by way of unity. So the intellect forms this figure in itself as it mixes various particulars together until it has grasped the figure universally in such a way that there is no opposition at all among its particulars.

While theology thus stands configured in the intellect, the intellect deals with particular issues by reducing each particular to its appropriate universal. And if some particular is opposed to its universal, the intellect assumes its contrary so that by agreeing with the universal it can form a proposition, inwardly realizing that Theology is the supreme science to which all other sciences must be reduced, while destroying any particulars opposed to this science.