being that exercises intellection is an existent essence in which intellectual propositions are established, as one thing is established in another.”

He said:

“Note: An intellectual form may, in a certain way, be acquired from external forms—for example, as you acquire the form of the sky from the sky. Alternatively, the initial form may first enter the intellective faculty and then acquire external existence, as when you conceive a shape and then bring it into existence. The Necessary Existent’s intellection of all things must be of the second kind.”

Then he said:

“Note: Either of these two modes may arise, in a substance receptive to intelligible forms, from an intellectual cause that conceives the form’s external existence or has not yet brought it into existence. It may also belong to an intellectual substance through itself, rather than through something else. Were this not so, the separate intellects would form an infinite regress. The Necessary Existent must possess this through Himself.”