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We next consider how one creature moves another. This consideration
will be threefold: (1) How the angels move, who are purely
spiritual creatures; (2) How bodies move; (3) How man moves,
who is composed of a spiritual and a corporeal nature.
Concerning the first point, there are three things to be considered:
(1) How an angel acts on an angel; (2) How an angel acts on a
corporeal nature; (3) How an angel acts on man.
The first of these raises the question of the enlightenment and speech
of the angels; and of their mutual coordination, both of the good and
of the bad angels.
Concerning their enlightenment there are four points of inquiry:
(1) Whether one angel moves the intellect of another by
enlightenment?
(2) Whether one angel moves the will of another?
(3) Whether an inferior angel can enlighten a superior angel?
(4) Whether a superior angel enlightens an inferior angel in all
that he knows himself?
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