Now the action of the senses is not performed without a corporeal instrument. Objection 2. Reply to Objection 3. But act is in that which it actuates: wherefore the soul must be in the whole body, and in each part thereof. First of all, because a body which is visible brings about an alteration in the medium, through its accidents. Reply to Objection 3. Objection 6. One part of the body is said to be nobler than another, on account of the various powers, of which the parts of the body are the organs. Further, Christ's body always retains the true nature of a body, nor is it ever changed into a spirit. . But the difference which constitutes man is "rational," which is applied to man on account of his intellectual principle. For it was said (Article 3) that Christ's entire body is contained under every part of the consecrated host. This is, however, absurd for many reasons. Therefore it behooved the intellectual soul to be united to a body fitted to be a convenient organ of sense. Objection 2. There is, further, a third kind of whole which is potential, divided into virtual parts. Objection 2. Is the intellectual principle multiplied numerically according to the number of bodies or is there one intelligence for all men? Therefore if the intellect were united to the body as its form, since every body has a determinate nature, it would follow that the intellect has a determinate nature; and thus, it would not be capable of knowing all things, as is clear from what has been said (I:75:2; which is contrary to the nature of the intellect. But every body occupying a place is in the place according to the manner of dimensive quantity, namely, inasmuch as it is commensurate with the place according to its dimensive quantity. vii, 19), that "the soul administers the body by light," that is, by fire, "and by air, which is most akin to a spirit." x, 7) that the ultimate happiness of man must consist in this operation as properly belonging to him. Therefore also the soul is thus united to the body. If, therefore, the whole soul be in each part of the body, it follows that all the powers of the soul are in each part of the body; thus the sight will be in the ear, and hearing in the eye, and this is absurd. Further, Augustine (De Quant. But matter has actual existence by the substantial form, which makes it to exist absolutely, as we have said above (Article 4). Objection 3. 1.2 Treatise on Sacred Doctrine (Question 1) 1.3 Treatise on the One God (Questions 2-26) 1.4 Treatise on the Trinity (Questions 27-43) 1.5 Treatise on the Creation (Questions 44-46) 1.6 Treatise on the Distinction of Things in General (Question 47) 1.7 Treatise on the Distinction of Good and Evil (Questions 48-49) For this reason, against those who hold that there are several souls in the body, he asks (De Anima i, 5), "what contains them? This is suitable to the intellectual soul, which, although it be one in its essence, yet on account of its perfection, is manifold in power: and therefore, for its various operations it requires various dispositions in the parts of the body to which it is united. Therefore He is moved when it is moved. and F. Leo Moore, O.P., S.T.L.Imprimatur. And this indeed is seen to happen when it is beheld by everyone under such an appearance, and it remains so not for an hour, but for a considerable time; and, in this case some think that it is the proper species of Christ's body. Objection 3. Therefore if the intellect and Socrates are united in the above manner, the action of the intellect cannot be attributed to Socrates. Therefore it is unintelligible that any accidental form exist in matter before the soul, which is the substantial form. But the intellectual soul has the power of sense in all its completeness; because what belongs to the inferior nature pre-exists more perfectly in the superior, as Dionysius says (Div. Further, if two unequal dimensive quantities be set side by side, the greater will overlap the lesser. For the substantial being of each thing consists in something indivisible, and every addition and subtraction varies the species, as in numbers, as stated in Metaph. Further, power and action have the same subject; for the same subject is what can, and does, act. Therefore, it should not be united to a body which is composed of parts belonging to various species. The Summa Theologica, as its title indicates, is a "theological summary." It seeks to describe the relationship between God and man and to explain how man's reconciliation with the Divine is made possible at all through Christ. And as a light body remains light, when removed from its proper place, retaining meanwhile an aptitude and an inclination for its proper place; so the human soul retains its proper existence when separated from the body, having an aptitude and a natural inclination to be united to the body. 2 - The Existence of God (Three Articles) Question. Further, a body of greater quantity cannot be contained under the measure of a lesser. It seems that Christ's body is not truly there when flesh or a child appears miraculously in this sacrament. ii) that "when we are moved, the things within us are moved": and this is true even of the soul's spiritual substance. And so it seems that Christ is in this sacrament movably. v). Now it is evident that the whole nature of a substance is under every part of the dimensions under which it is contained; just as the entire nature of air is under every part of air, and the entire nature of bread under every part of bread; and this indifferently, whether the dimensions be actually divided (as when the air is divided or the bread cut), or whether they be actually undivided, but potentially divisible. Yet the first act is said to be in potentiality to the second act, which is operation; for such a potentiality "does not reject"that is, does not excludethe soul. Since, then, the substance of Christ's body is present on the altar by the power of this sacrament, while its dimensive quantity is there concomitantly and as it were accidentally, therefore the dimensive quantity of Christ's body is in this sacrament, not according to its proper manner (namely, that the whole is in the whole, and the individual parts in individual parts), but after the manner of substance, whose nature is for the whole to be in the whole, and the whole in every part. But if anyone says that the intellectual soul is not the form of the body he must first explain how it is that this action of understanding is the action of this particular man; for each one is conscious that it is himself who understands. From this it is clear how false are the opinions of those who maintained the existence of some mediate bodies between the soul and body of man. Therefore, if we suppose two men to have several intellects and one sensefor instance, if two men had one eyethere would be several seers, but one sight. Further, whatever exists in a thing by reason of its nature exists in it always. Reply to Objection 1. It follows therefore that the intellectual principle is the proper form of man. And if to this we add that to understand, which is the act of the intellect, is not affected by any organ other than the intellect itself; it will further follow that there is but one agent and one action: that is to say that all men are but one "understander," and have but one act of understanding, in regard, that is, of one intelligible object. Thus one part would not depend on another; nor would one part be nobler than another; which is clearly untrue. It is likewise clear that this is impossible if, according to the opinion of Aristotle (De Anima ii, 2), it is supposed that the intellect is a part or a power of the soul which is the form of man. Yet we must know that there is something of Christ in this sacrament in a twofold manner: first, as it were, by the power of the sacrament; secondly, from natural concomitance. F. Innocentius Apap, O.P., S.T.M., Censor. i, 10), that the forms of the elements remain in the mixed body, not actually but virtually. For it is impossible for many distinct individuals to have one form, as it is impossible for them to have one existence, for the form is the principle of existence. Therefore there are not many human souls in one species. But what is not in a place, is not moved of itself locally, but only according to the motion of the subject in which it is. But all men are of one species. Therefore it is impossible for the entire dimensive quantity of Christ's body to be there. I answer that, As stated above (Article 1, Reply to Objection 3; Article 3), Christ's body is in this sacrament not after the proper manner of dimensive quantity, but rather after the manner of substance. And therefore in this sacrament the blood is consecrated apart from the body, but no other part is consecrated separately from the rest. Summa Theologiae FP Q [76] Of The Union Of Body And Soul Summa Theologiae by St. Thomas Aquinas Prologue A [1] A [2] A [3] A [4] A [5] A [6] A [7] A [8] A [1] Whether the intellectual principle is united to the body as its form? For the Philosopher says (De Anima iii, 4) that the intellect is "separate," and that it is not the act of any body. Objection 1. If, therefore, man were 'living' by one form, the vegetative soul, and 'animal' by another form, the sensitive soul, and "man" by another form, the intellectual soul, it would follow that man is not absolutely one. But our Lord said (John 6:56): "My flesh is meat indeed, and My blood is drink indeed." Hence there is no parallel reason, as is evident from what was said above. Therefore we must suppose dimensions in matter before the substantial forms, which are many belonging to one species. 76 - OF THE UNION OF BODY AND SOUL (EIGHT ARTICLES) But Christ's eye beholds Himself as He is in this sacrament. Objection 3. Thus from the very operation of the intellect it is made clear that the intellectual principle is united to the body as its form. Therefore it seems to be united to the body by means of an incorruptible body, and such would be some heavenly light, which would harmonize the elements, and unite them together. It is against these that Cyril says (Ep. vii 2), difference is derived from the form. Therefore, if we have one form by which a thing is an animal, and another form by which it is a man, it follows either that one of these two things could not be predicated of the other, except accidentally, supposing these two forms not to be ordered to one anotheror that one would be predicated of the other according to the second manner of essential predication, if one soul be presupposed to the other. Further, whatever has per se existence is not united to the body as its form; because a form is that by which a thing exists: so that the very existence of a form does not belong to the form by itself. Therefore the entire Christ is not contained under this sacrament. In the body is there any other substantial form? Perhaps someone might attempt to answer this by saying that before sin the human body was incorruptible. Objection 2. "that is, what makes them one? ii, 3) that the embryo is an animal before it is a man. x). For as every action is according to the mode of the form by which the agent acts, as heating is according to the mode of the heat; so knowledge is according to the mode of the species by which the knower knows. Thirdly, it is in keeping with its effect, in which sense it was stated above (III:74:1) that "the body is offered for the salvation of the body, and the blood for the salvation of the soul.". Now the proper operation of man as man is to understand; because he thereby surpasses all other animals. But in this sacrament the entire substance of Christ's body is present, as stated above (Article 1,Article 3). For corruptible and incorruptible are not of the same substance. Wherefore it is impossible for any accidental dispositions to pre-exist in matter before the substantial form, and consequently before the soul. Now whatever is received into anything must be received according to the condition of the receiver. ii, 3) that the relation of universal causes to universals is like the relation of particular causes to individuals. A sign of which is that we observe "those who are refined in body are well endowed in mind," as stated in De Anima ii, 9. vi, 6), that "in each body the whole soul is in the whole body, and in each part is entire.". Objection 2. 2 Treatise on the Last End (Questions 1-5) 3 Treatise on Human Acts: Acts Peculiar to Man (Questions 6-21) 4 Treatise on the Passions (Questions 22-48) 5 Treatise on Habits (Questions 49-54) 6 Treatise on Habits in Particular (Questions 55-89) 7 Treatise on Law (Questions 90-108) It seems that Christ's body is in this sacrament as in a place. Reply to Objection 1. But it is impossible that a soul, one in species, should belong to animals of different species. The reason of this is that a thing is one, according as it is a being. Objection 2. 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