Propositions "S"1

 

THE FIRST PART OF THE PROPOSITIONS OF S.

Essential memory B.
1. Essential memory is an essence of the soul together with essential intelligence and essential will.
2. The purpose of essential memory is a being that is an aggregate of itself with essential intellect and essential will.
3. Essential memory is an actively remembering essence that apprehends its likenesses and unlikenesses.

Essential intelligence
1. Insofar as essential intelligence actively understands, it is an active essence, and insofar as it can be understood, essential intelligence is passive.
2. Essential intelligence is a light created in itself, as well as in essential memory and essential will.
3. Essential intelligence is an active light inasmuch as it produces it likenesses in other things through the intellect, and it is a receptive light inasmuch as it inwardly receives its likenesses.

Essential will
1. Essential willingness and essential unwillingness are both the essence of will without any difference.
2. Essential will, as an actively willing essence, contains form and as an essence that can be desired by the will, essential will contains matter.
3. Free will was created at the root of essential will through willingness and unwillingness.

Being E.
1. The soul's being is an aggregate of essential memory, essential intelligence and essential will illuminating and producing it.
2. The soul's being is a universal reasonable subject, through which its essences influence its powers.
3. Since the essences of the rational soul are incorruptible, the soul itself is incorruptible.

Form F.
1. There is form in the soul, since essential memory actively remembers, essential intelligence actively understands and essential will is actively willing.
2. The form of the soul consists of essential memory, essential intelligence and essential will and transmits its influence to memory, intellect and will.
3. The form of the rational soul is an essence essentially produced by essential memory, essential intelligence and essential will and it essentially produces itself as it also essentially produces memory, intellect and will.

Matter G.
1. Spiritual matter is produced in the soul as it receives its being from its essential parts.
2. The matter of the rational soul is an aggregate of the receptivity of essential memory, essential intelligence and essential will.
3. The matter of the rational soul is the root of the powers of vegetation and sense transmitting its influence to the matter of memory, intellect and will.

Conjunction H. 
1. Essential memory, essential intelligence and essential will incessantly join one another in the soul's being through attraction, giving and receiving.
2. The soul's being is a conjunction of form and matter.
3. The rational soul's being is a conjunction of its essences and powers that accidentally influence the conjunction of the acts of its powers.

Simplicity I.
1. As an actively understanding essence, essential intelligence is a simple form, and as a receptive essence of the soul, it is simple matter.
2. The form of the rational soul is one simple form on account of the simplicity of the forms producing it.
3. Just as simple forms enter into the soul under one common form, so do simple powers issue from one common form.

Composition K.
1. The soul is not a compound of its essences, but rather a being with its own identity consisting of them.
2. As essential intelligence does not exist as a being per se but only as a part of the soul, it is composed in the soul but not in itself.
3. Any composition made of the soul's form and matter is incorruptible, but composition made from the secondary acts of the soul's powers is corruptible.

Substance L.
1. The substance of the rational soul stands under essential memory, essential intelligence and essential will and under the acts of memory, intellect and will.
2. Whatever is of the essence of the soul exists in the substance of the soul, and not in itself.
3. In the substance of the soul, the senses stand under the intellect and the vegetative power stands under the senses.

Accident M.
1. Since the being of the rational soul stands substantially under its essence, the powers of this being belong to it by accident.
2. The powers of the soul are substantial as compared to their acts, which are accidental forms.
3. The substantial form of the rational soul is the one produced by the soul itself, and the vegetative and sensitive forms belong to it accidentally.

Virtue N.
1. The soul's virtue arises in its essence and proceeds into being and from its being it proceeds into its powers and then shines forth in the acts of the powers.
2. Faith, hope and charity are virtues produced in the acts of the powers.
3. The soul's essential virtue illuminates the virtue of the sensitive and vegetative powers.

Operation O.
1. As the essence of the soul is actively engaged in remembering, understanding and willing, an incessant operation proceeds within the soul.
2. The being of the soul is the operation of its essence, its powers are operations of its being, and remembering, understanding and willing or not willing are operations of the powers.
3. Since the soul is active through its form and passive through its matter, the power of free will stands in the middle of its operation.

Inwardness P.
1. As the essences of the rational soul actively operate and apprehend objects within themselves, they naturally produce the inward being of the soul.
2. As form inwardly and actively informs itself and also informs matter, it produces the being of the soul exclusively within its own species.
3. The soul's being influences its powers within itself and not ouside.

Outwardness Q.
1. Within itself, the active intellect produces the sensitive and vegetative powers that are outside of its species.
2. The active intellect produces its own likeness inwardly by using external objects.
3. The active intellect naturally seeks out external species in order to have God within itself.

Movement R.
1. The movemnt of the soul is the virtue whereby the soul is active in apprehending and receiving objects both inwardly and outwardly.
2. With its own movement, the soul virtually moves the body as it keeps it alive.
3. The intellect influences the will with the light of essential intelligence, and the will influences the intellect with the light of essential will.


 



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