First of all, because a body which is visible brings about an alteration in the medium, through its accidents. But a form which requires variety in the parts, such as a soul, and specially the soul of perfect animals, is not equally related to the whole and the parts: hence it is not divided accidentally when the whole is divided. Therefore it exists only in an organic body. It would seem that the intellectual soul is united to the body through the medium of accidental dispositions. Objection 2. Objection 2. Further, since Christ's is an organic body, it has parts determinately distant. But when flesh or a child appears, the sacramental species cease to be present. The first part covers the nature of God, creation, angels, man, and divine government (sovereignty). For in the first place this serves to represent Christ's Passion, in which the blood was separated from the body; hence in the form for the consecration of the blood mention is made of its shedding. The distinction between Socrates and Plato would be no other than that of one man with a tunic and another with a cloak; which is quite absurd. and F. Leo Moore, O.P., S.T.L.Imprimatur. But since the soul is united to the body as its form, it must necessarily be in the whole body, and in each part thereof. As the Philosopher says (Phys. We must therefore conclude that in man the sensitive soul, the intellectual soul, and the nutritive soul are numerically one soul. Reply to Objection 1. Since therefore Christ exists in three substances, namely, the Godhead, soul and body, as shown above (III:2:5; III:5:3), it seems that the entire Christ is not under this sacrament. Individuality of the intelligent being, or of the species whereby it understands, does not exclude the understanding of universals; otherwise, since separate intellects are subsistent substances, and consequently individual, they could not understand universals. For it involves nothing unreasonable that the same movable thing be moved by several motors; and still less if it be moved according to its various parts. Objection 3. 77: Fraud in Buying and Selling: Q. Again, this is clearly impossible, whatever one may hold as to the manner of the union of the intellect to this or that man. v, 1); for a thing is said to move or act, either by virtue of its whole self, for instance, as a physician heals; or by virtue of a part, as a man sees by his eye; or through an accidental quality, as when we say that something that is white builds, because it is accidental to the builder to be white. Objection 1. For we do not say that the wall sees; rather, we say that the wall is seen. xxvi): "We are made partakers of the body and blood of Christ, not as taking common flesh, nor as of a holy man united to the Word in dignity, but the truly life-giving flesh of the Word Himself.". It seems that the soul is united to the animal body by means of a body. Reply to Objection 4. Further, Augustine (De Quant. Therefore of one thing there is but one substantial form. Objection 1. Reply to Objection 3. v, 1), since it is a being only potentially; indeed everything that is moved is a body. Further, it was stated above (Article 1, Reply to Objection 1) that all the other parts of the body, such as the bones, nerves, and the like, are comprised under the name of flesh. But one cannot sense without a body: therefore the body must be some part of man. Further, the Philosopher says (De Gener. On the Simplicity of God 4. But there is this difference, according to the opinion of Aristotle, between the sense and the intelligencethat a thing is perceived by the sense according to the disposition which it has outside the soul that is, in its individuality; whereas the nature of the thing understood is indeed outside the soul, but the mode according to which it exists outside the soul is not the mode according to which it is understood. But each part of the human body is not an organic body. Therefore the more the organ of touch is reduced to an equable complexion, the more sensitive will be the touch. It discusses topics central to Christian morality, ethics, law, and the life of Christ, providing philosophical and theological solutions to common arguments and questions surrounding the Christian faith. But this link or union does not sufficiently explain the fact, that the act of the intellect is the act of Socrates. If, therefore, in man it be incorruptible, the sensitive soul in man and brute animals will not be of the same "genus." Therefore, it is impossible for matter to be apprehended as hot, or as having quantity, before it is actual. Further, every form is determined according to the nature of the matter of which it is the form; otherwise no proportion would be required between matter and form. And although the truth corresponds with the figure, still the figure cannot equal it. Objection 3. Therefore, if we suppose two men to have several intellects and one sensefor instance, if two men had one eyethere would be several seers, but one sight. Reply to Objection 3. 77: The Powers of the Soul in General: Q. Therefore Christ's body is not in this sacrament as in a place. But the second kind of totality, which depends on logical and essential perfection, properly and essentially belongs to forms: and likewise the virtual totality, because a form is the principle of operation. viii (Did. Reply to Objection 1. And so the difference of corruptible and incorruptible which is on the part of the forms does not involve a generic difference between man and the other animals. Therefore a form cannot be without its own proper matter. Two dimensive quantities cannot naturally be in the same subject at the same time, so that each be there according to the proper manner of dimensive quantity. But Christ's body seems to be definitively in this sacrament, because it is so present where the species of the bread and wine are, that it is nowhere else upon the altar: likewise it seems to be there circumscriptively, because it is so contained under the species of the consecrated host, that it neither exceeds it nor is exceeded by it. I answer that, It is absolutely impossible for one intellect to belong to all men. For instance, St. Aquinas talks about motion, causation, perfection, and global harmony as some of the vital proves that there is God. But matter has actual existence by the substantial form, which makes it to exist absolutely, as we have said above (Article 4). This is the demonstration used by Aristotle (De Anima ii, 2). Thus Aristotle argues, Metaph. A sign of which is that we observe "those who are refined in body are well endowed in mind," as stated in De Anima ii, 9. Now matter subject to dimension is not to be found except in a body. Therefore also the soul is thus united to the body. Reply to Objection 2. From which it is evident that the dimensions of the bread or wine are not changed into the dimensions of the body of Christ, but substance into substance. Objection 3. Therefore it is not movably in this sacrament. [a] Objection 1: It seems that the intellectual principle is not united to the body as its form. iii). 3 - OF THE SIMPLICITY OF GOD (EIGHT ARTICLES) Question. In the body is there any other substantial form? It is likewise clear that this is impossible if, according to the opinion of Aristotle (De Anima ii, 2), it is supposed that the intellect is a part or a power of the soul which is the form of man. Now it happens that different things, according to different forms, are likened to the same thing. And the first instrument of the motive power is a kind of spirit, as the Philosopher says in De causa motus animalium (De mot. Reply to Objection 3. Nor does it matter that sometimes Christ's entire body is not seen there, but part of His flesh, or else that it is not seen in youthful guise, but in the semblance of a child, because it lies within the power of a glorified body for it to be seen by a non-glorified eye either entirely or in part, and under its own semblance or in strange guise, as will be said later (Supplement:85:2-3). What are the qualities required in the body of which the intellectual principle is the form? Now it is clear that because the colors, the images of which are in the sight, are on a wall, the action of seeing is not attributed to the wall: for we do not say that the wall sees, but rather that it is seen. For this sacrament is ordained for the salvation of the faithful, not by virtue of the species, but by virtue of what is contained under the species, because the species were there even before the consecration, from which comes the power of this sacrament. Further, the order of forms depends on their relation to primary matter; for "before" and "after" apply by comparison to some beginning. Objection 1. For the soul is the primary principle of our nourishment, sensation, and local movement; and likewise of our understanding. Therefore in man the essence of the intellectual soul, the sensitive soul, and the nutritive soul, cannot be the same. Further, all the powers of the soul are rooted in the essence of the soul. Objection 6. Those things which are derived from various forms are predicated of one another, either accidentally, (if the forms are not ordered to one another, as when we say that something white is sweet), or essentially, in the second manner of essential predication, (if the forms are ordered one to another, the subject belonging to the definition of the predicate; as a surface is presupposed to color; so that if we say that a body with a surface is colored, we have the second manner of essential predication.) 1-119) Question 1. Whether the intellect be one or many, what is understood is one; for what is understood is in the intellect, not according to its own nature, but according to its likeness; for "the stone is not in the soul, but its likeness is," as is said, De Anima iii, 8. Hence it is clear that Christ, strictly speaking is immovably in this sacrament. Further, the place of the bread and wine is not empty, because nature abhors a vacuum; nor is the substance of the bread there, as stated above (III:75:2); but only the body of Christ is there. Consequently the body of Christ fills that place. F. Innocentius Apap, O.P., S.T.M., Censor. Therefore this principle by which we primarily understand, whether it be called the intellect or the intellectual soul, is the form of the body. But substance, as such, is not visible to the bodily eye, nor does it come under any one of the senses, nor under the imagination, but solely under the intellect, whose object is "what a thing is" (De Anima iii). But it is not the same with any other glorified eye, because Christ's eye is under this sacrament, in which no other glorified eye is conformed to it. Therefore it is unintelligible that any accidental form exist in matter before the soul, which is the substantial form. The reason of this is that a thing is one, according as it is a being. But we must observe that the nobler a form is, the more it rises above corporeal matter, the less it is merged in matter, and the more it excels matter by its power and its operation; hence we find that the form of a mixed body has another operation not caused by its elemental qualities. Objection 2. It seems that Christ is not entire under every part of the species of bread and wine. It seems, therefore, that the same individual knowledge which is in the master is communicated to the disciple; which cannot be, unless there is one intellect in both. It seems that the body of Christ, as it is in this sacrament, can be seen by the eye, at least by a glorified one. Animae xxxii) says: "If I were to say that there are many human souls, I should laugh at myself." Further, the human body is a mixed body. On the contrary, The place and the object placed must be equal, as is clear from the Philosopher (Phys. I answer that, When any thing is one, as to subject, and manifold in being, there is nothing to hinder it from being moved in one respect, and yet to remain at rest in another just as it is one thing for a body to be white, and another thing, to be large; hence it can be moved as to its whiteness, and yet continue unmoved as to its magnitude. Now it is clear that no matter how the intellect is united or coupled to this or that man, the intellect has the precedence of all the other things which appertain to man; for the sensitive powers obey the intellect, and are at its service. But in Christ, being in Himself and being under the sacrament are not the same thing, because when we say that He is under this sacrament, we express a kind of relationship to this sacrament. There remains, therefore, no other explanation than that given by Aristotlenamely, that this particular man understands, because the intellectual principle is his form. But with regard to the intellectual part, he seems to leave it in doubt whether it be "only logically" distinct from the other parts of the soul, "or also locally.". But the part which moves is the soul. For an immaterial substance is not multiplied in number within one species. On the contrary, It is said in the book De Ecclesiasticis Dogmatibus xv: "Nor do we say that there are two souls in one man, as James and other Syrians write; one, animal, by which the body is animated, and which is mingled with the blood; the other, spiritual, which obeys the reason; but we say that it is one and the same soul in man, that both gives life to the body by being united to it, and orders itself by its own reasoning. If, however, the soul is united to the body as its form, as we have said (Article 1), it is impossible for it to be united by means of another body. New English Translation of St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae (Summa Theologica) by Alfred J. Freddoso University of Notre Dame Pars Secunda-Secundae (Part 2-2) Table of contents: Part 2-2: Faith: . and F. Leo Moore, O.P., S.T.L.Imprimatur. But that it is not outside the superficies of the sacrament, nor on any other part of the altar, is due not to its being there definitively or circumscriptively, but to its being there by consecration and conversion of the bread and wine, as stated above (Article 1; 15, 2, sqq.). Therefore the soul is united to the human body by means of a body. But whatever fills a place is there locally. Is the intellectual principle multiplied numerically according to the number of bodies or is there one intelligence for all men? Therefore there are not many human souls in one species. ii, 2), the ultimate natural form to which the consideration of the natural philosopher is directed is indeed separate; yet it exists in matter. It seems that Christ's body is in this sacrament as in a place. This power is called the intellect. Aa Aa. Reply to Objection 3. Objection 2. Further, whatever receptive power is an act of a body, receives a form materially and individually; for what is received must be received according to the condition of the receiver. Objection 1. Nom. Therefore it seems that the soul is united to the body by means of a power, which is an accident. Therefore the breath, which is a subtle body, is the means of union between soul and body. The divine beatitude (26) THE BLESSED TRINITY ORIGIN: The question of origin or procession (27). Further, if my intellect is distinct from your intellect, my intellect is an individual, and so is yours; for individuals are things which differ in number but agree in one species. God, however, provided in this case by applying a remedy against death in the gift of grace. The first kind of totality does not apply to forms, except perhaps accidentally; and then only to those forms, which have an indifferent relationship to a quantitative whole and its parts; as whiteness, as far as its essence is concerned, is equally disposed to be in the whole surface and in each part of the surface; and, therefore, the surface being divided, the whiteness is accidentally divided. Canonicus Surmont, Vicarius Generalis. Therefore the soul is to the body as a form of matter. Asked by Bijoy J #1210109. But the intellectual soul is incorruptible; whereas the other souls, as the sensitive and the nutritive, are corruptible, as was shown above (I:75:6). 76. Objection 1. But, according to the commandment (Exodus 12:10), concerning the Paschal Lamb, a figure of this sacrament, "there remained nothing until the morning." Therefore, only the flesh and blood of Christ are contained in this sacrament. ii, 1) that the relation of a part of the soul to a part of the body, such as the sight to the pupil of the eye, is the same as the relation of the soul to the whole body of an animal. 2 - The Existence of God (Three Articles) Question. Objection 1. But the measure of the bread and wine is much smaller than the measure of Christ's body. But this seems unlikely. It follows therefore that the intellectual principle is the proper form of man. Objection 3. The Summa Theologica is divided into three parts. Now the accidents of Christ's body are in this sacrament by means of the substance; so that the accidents of Christ's body have no immediate relationship either to this sacrament or to adjacent bodies; consequently they do not act on the medium so as to be seen by any corporeal eye. "The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine." - Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica Summa Theologica is an extensive five-volume masterpiece about the. The soul is the act of an organic body, as of its primary and proportionate perfectible. Are all the dimensions of Christ's body in this sacrament? Objection 2. Question 76. Now what is added is always more perfect. But the intellectual soul is incorruptible. For every form exists in its proper disposed matter. When such apparition takes place, the sacramental species sometimes continue entire in themselves; and sometimes only as to that which is principal, as was said above. Now the form, through itself, makes a thing to be actual since it is itself essentially an act; nor does it give existence by means of something else. Therefore there is one intellect of all men. This is not the case with other non-subsistent forms. In the first place, an animal would not be absolutely one, in which there were several souls. By the power of the sacrament there is contained under it, as to the species of the bread, not only the flesh, but the entire body of Christ, that is, the bones the nerves, and the like. Objection 6. And in this way, since Christ has unfailing and incorruptible being, He ceases to be under this sacrament, not because He ceases to be, nor yet by local movement of His own, as is clear from what has been said, but only by the fact that the sacramental species cease to exist. For if any two things be really united, then wherever the one is really, there must the other also be: since things really united together are only distinguished by an operation of the mind. Other powers are common to the soul and body; wherefore each of these powers need not be wherever the soul is, but only in that part of the body, which is adapted to the operation of such a power. Whence Aristotle concludes (Ethic. 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