PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Socalled, The Interior Castle, Spiritual Exercises Of Ignatius Of Loyola
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The object of the intellect is to know the essence of a thing. Consequently, for perfect happiness the intellect needs to reach the very essence of the first cause. (st i. ii. 3. 8) [our] intellect naturally knows [only those] natures which exist only in individual matter, not as they are in such individual matter, but according as they are abstracted therefrom. Therefore, the created intellect cannot see the essence of god, unless god by his grace unites himself to the created intellect, as an object made intelligible by it. Something that is not a material substance, we do not have the capacity to know. Not in this life. (st i-ii. 5. 3; cf. Not possible for human beings to be perfectly happy in this life. Because it is not possible for us to see god"s essence in this life. Not by natural reason alone. (st i-ii. 5. 5; cf.
