Systematic Index

1802, 1804 f., 3018; created nature, even material, is of itself good 37, 236 f., 242, 421, 425, 706, 713; it is changeable 706; it is not the same as the Word 1909; nor is it purely nothing 526, 1901 ff., nor are all things one 522.

Heaven, the stars, and water are not animate 208; nor is flesh-food of itself unclean 244.

VI c Angels exist and are spiritual 428, 461, 706, 994, 1783, 1802, 1804 f., 3018, they are not propagated 533; the devil himself was created and good 237; likewise also the other demons 428, 574a.

VI d Man is not of the substance of God 1701, but is created 241 f., 1783, 1801, 1806, 2123; he consists of two substances 295, namely of a soul or spirit and a body (not made by the devil 242) or flesh 295, 428, 481, 1783, 1914; he is therefore flesh intellectually animated 255. The end of man is so that leading a life in society and ordered under God he may cultivate fully all his faculties for the praise of His Creator, and by fulfilling faithfully the office of his art or any other vocation he may obtain for himself both temporal and eternal happiness 2270.

Adam was the first man 101, 228a, 2123, from whom the whole human race is derived 2280, 3028; nor before him were there any men in the world 717c. On the origin of the body of Adam: 2123, 2285, 3027.

The human soul is not a part of the divine substance or one reality with the Word 20, 31, 235, 348, 511 ff.; nor is it uncreated or uncreatable 527; but it is created by God 20, 144, 170, 527, 3027, from nothing 348; it does not pre-exist 203, 236; it is not generated by parents 170, 533, 1910; nor does it evolve from sensitive to intellectual 1910 ff.; it is a substance 295; it is not one in all 738; but one in each 338; infused before birth 1185*; it is not naturally either good or evil 236, 243, 642.

The soul is rational and intellectual 148, 216, 255, 290, 338, 344, 393, 422, 429, 480, 738; but it is not itself the unique object of evident knowledge 557; it is immortal 2 ff., 16, 40, 86, 738; it is not united with the body accidentally 1911 f., 1914, but per se and essentially it is truly the form of the body 480 f., 738, 1655; it is endowed with liberty 129 f., 133 ff., 140, 174, 181, 186, 316 f., 322, 325, 348, 373, 776, 793, 797, 1027 f., 1039, 1065 ff., 1093 ff., 1291, 1360 f., 1912, 1914, which liberty can be proved not only from Scripture 1041, but also from reason 1650.

[On the separated soul see XIVa and b]

VI e Man by his nature is a social being 1856, 2270; wherefore all cannot be equal 1849, 1851; cf. XIi-p.

THE END OF CREATION AND PROVIDENCE

VI f The end, which God had in creating, is not His own beatitude 1783, but the manifestation of His goodness 1783. The end of the world is the glory of God 134, 1805, 2270, the beginning and end of all things 1785. This end nevertheless is not obtained equally by the evil and the good work of man 504 ff.; it is obtained not only by complete renunciation 508, cf. XIa ff. XIIId.

VI g By His providence God governs things visible and invisible 421, 1784, and He protects them 254, by truly acting upon the world and men 1702; He does not will evil as He wills good 514; and He only permits sin 816; He could have prevented evil 375; He ought not to obey the devil 586; He neither communicates nor subjects His omnipotence to us 1217 f. Man is not under the direction of the stars 35, 239 f., nor is he ruled by fate 607.

GOD ELEVATING

THE SUPERNATURAL ORDER

VII a God elevated rational creatures (angels and men) to a state exceeding the needs of nature 1001-1007, 1009, 1021,