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CHAP. XXII.
Of the Intellective Faculty.
a 1.1 THe third faculty of the Soul is the Intellective, proper to man. Intellect is that part of the Soul whereby it knoweth and understandeth. It is twofold, Patient and Agent. Patient In∣tellect is that by which Intellect becometh all things, for Intel∣••ection is like sense; Sense is by passion from a sensible object, in∣tellect from an intellectuall. The properties of patient Intellect are these; it is void of corruptive passion; it is apt for reception of species; it is that species potentially; it is not mixt with the bo∣dy; it hath no corporeall Organs; it is the place of species.
b 1.2 That there is also an agent Intellect is manifest; for in what∣soever kind, there is somthing that is potentially all of that kind, there is somthing likewise which is the efficient cause of all in that kind; this is the agent Intellect, a cognoscitive power which enlightneth phantasms and the patient Intellect. The pro∣perties thereof are, that it is separable from the body, immortall and eternall; that it is not mixt with the body; that it is void of passion; that it is ever in act; but the patient Intellect is mortall, which is the cause of Forgetfulness.
c 1.3 The action of the Intellect is twofold, one, Intellection of indi∣visibles, in which is neither truth nor falshood, as all simple appre∣hensions; the other complex, when we compound and unite notions by affirmation or negation. This is alwaies either true or false, the other neither. The simple is precedent to the complex.
d 1.4 Intellect in act is either Practick or Theoretick. As a sensible object reduceth the sensible faculty from power to act, so doth an intellectuall object the intellectuall faculty; and as the ope∣ration of sense is threefold, simple apprehension, judgment if it be good or ill, and lastly, appetition or aversion according to that perception: So likewise is the operation of the practick intel∣lect threefold: First, it is moved by phanta••mes, as sense is by externall sensibles. Secondly, it judgeth the object to be good or ill, by affirmation or negation. Thirdly, it moveth the will to pursue or shun it, whence it is called practick. This practick intellect is moved as well when the sensible object is absent, as when it is present, only excited by the phantasy. The object of the Theoretick Intellect, is, true or false; of the practick, good or ill.
e 1.5 The rationall soul in some manner is every thing; for that which actually knoweth, is in some maner the same with the thing known.