| ### QUESTION 12 ### HOW GOD IS KNOWN BY US ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### As hitherto we have considered God as He is in Himself, we now go on to consider in what manner He is in the knowledge of creatures; concerning which there are thirteen points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether any created intellect can see the essence of God? #### (2) Whether the essence of God is seen by the intellect through any created image? #### (3) Whether the essence of God can be seen by the corporeal eye? #### (4) Whether any created intellectual substance is sufficient by its own natural powers to see the essence of God? #### (5) Whether the created intellect needs any created light in order to see the essence of God? #### (6) Whether of those who see God, one sees Him more perfectly than another? #### (7) Whether any created intellect can comprehend the essence of God? #### (8) Whether the created intellect seeing the essence of God, knows all things in it? #### (9) Whether what is there known is known by any similitudes? #### (10) Whether the created intellect knows at once what it sees in God? #### (11) Whether in the state of this life any man can see the essence of God? #### (12) Whether by natural reason we can know God in this life? #### (13) Whether there is in this life any knowledge of God through grace above the knowledge of natural reason? ####  |