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Since an angel is absolutely incorporeal and immaterial,
it is not in a place according to its substance, that is,
by quantitative contact, since it does not have quantity.
But the angel is said equivocally to be in a place
inasmuch as it locally moves some body by dynamic contact,
or the contact of its power, that is, by a virtually
transient operation. In this way our will, which is
spiritual, moves the members of our body, but it is not
in a place by quantitative contact (as when my hand
touches the page), but by dynamic contact. Besides
this, the human soul, as informing its body, is
definitively in the place of the body and nowhere else.
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