| ### QUESTION 88 ### HOW THE HUMAN SOUL KNOWS WHAT IS ABOVE ITSELF ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider how the human soul knows what is above itself, viz. immaterial substances. Under this head there are three points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether the human soul in the present state of life can understand the immaterial substances called angels, in themselves? #### (2) Whether it can arrive at the knowledge thereof by the knowledge of material things? #### (3) Whether God is the first object of our knowledge? ####  |