On the Holy Trinity, Book XI

Book XI

• On the Holy Trinity XI.1 — A Trace of the Trinity Also In the Outer Man. 1. No one doubts that, as the inner man is endued with understanding, so is the outer with bodily sense. Let us try, then, if we can, to discover in this outer man also,…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XI.2 — Chapter 2.—A Certain Trinity in the Sight. That There are Three Things in Sight, Which Differ in Their Own Nature. In What Manner from a Visible Thing Vision is Produced, or the Image of that Thing Which is Seen. The…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XI.3 — The Unity of the Three Takes Place in Thought, Viz. Of Memory, of Ternal Vision, and of Will Combining Both. Chapter 3.—The Unity of the Three Takes Place in Thought, Viz Of Memory, of Ternal Vision, and of Will…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XI.4 — How This Unity Comes to Pass. 7. But if that will which moves to and fro, hither and thither, the eye that is to be informed, and unites it when formed, shall have wholly converged to the inward phantasy, and shall…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XI.5 — Chapter 5.—The Trinity of the Outer Man, or of External Vision, is Not an Image of God. The Likeness of God is Desired Even in Sins. In External Vision the Form of the Corporeal Thing is as It Were the Parent, Vision…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XI.6 — Of What Kind We are to Reckon the Rest (Requies), and End (Finis), of the Will in Vision. Chapter 6.—Of What Kind We are to Reckon the Rest (Requies), and End (Finis), of the Will in Vision. 10. Perhaps we can…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XI.7 — There is Another Trinity in the Memory of Him Who Thinks Over Again What He Has Seen. Chapter 7.—There is Another Trinity in the Memory of Him Who Thinks Over Again What He Has Seen. 11. But yet again, take the case…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XI.8 — Different Modes of Conceiving. But since the eye of the mind cannot look at all things together, in one glance, which the memory retains, these trinities of thought alternate in a series of withdrawals and…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XI.9 — Species is Produced by Species in Succession. 16. In this arrangement, then, while we begin from the bodily species and arrive finally at the species which comes to be in the intuition (contuitu) of the concipient,…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XI.10 — The Imagination Also Adds Even to Things We Have Not Seen, Those Things Which We Have Seen Elsewhere. Chapter 10.—The Imagination Also Adds Even to Things We Have Not Seen, Those Things Which We Have Seen Elsewhere.…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity XI.11 — Number, Weight, Measure. 18. But because those things which are impressed on the memory singly, can be conceived according to number, measure seems to belong to the memory, but number to the vision; because, although…vatican.va