Since therefore Christ exists in three substances, namely, the Godhead, soul and body, as shown above (III:2:5; III:5:3), it seems that the entire Christ is not under this sacrament. Consequently the body of Christ fills that place. Reply to Objection 2. vii, 6). x). Objection 2. Nevertheless, since the substance of Christ's body is not really deprived of its dimensive quantity and its other accidents, hence it comes that by reason of real concomitance the whole dimensive quantity of Christ's body and all its other accidents are in this sacrament. I answer that, If the soul were united to the body, merely as a motor, there would be nothing to prevent the existence of certain dispositions mediating between the soul and the body; on the contrary, they would be necessary, for on the part of the soul would be required the power to move the body; and on the part of the body, a certain aptitude to be moved by the soul. ii, 1) that the relation of a part of the soul to a part of the body, such as the sight to the pupil of the eye, is the same as the relation of the soul to the whole body of an animal. Wherefore it excels corporeal matter in its power by the fact that it has an operation and a power in which corporeal matter has no share whatever. For the Philosopher says (De Anima ii, 1), that "the soul is the act of a physical body which has life potentially." But the place, where this sacrament is, is much less than the body of Christ. 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. Is the entire Christ under each species of the sacrament? Therefore in man the intellectual soul is not essentially the same as the sensitive soul, but presupposes it as a material subject. Which opinion is rejected by Aristotle (De Anima ii, 2), with regard to those parts of the soul which use corporeal organs; for this reason, that in those animals which continue to live when they have been divided in each part are observed the operations of the soul, as sense and appetite. Reply to Objection 1. 1.1 Introduction. The same is to be said of the sensitive soul in brute animals, and of the nutritive soul in plants, and universally of all more perfect forms with regard to the imperfect. Averroes maintained that the forms of elements, by reason of their imperfection, are a medium between accidental and substantial forms, and so can be "more" or "less"; and therefore in the mixture they are modified and reduced to an average, so that one form emerges from them. 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. Is the soul wholly in each part of the body. In the first place, an animal would not be absolutely one, in which there were several souls. ii, 1). On the contrary, As long as a thing remains the same, it cannot at the same time be seen by the same eye under diverse species. Reply to Objection 1. But it was said above (Reply to Objection 2) that Christ's body is compared with this sacrament not by reason of dimensive quantity, but by reason of its substance, as already stated. Objection 2. If nothing, then, be contained under one species, but what is contained under the other, and if the whole Christ be contained under both, it seems that one of them is superfluous in this sacrament. FIRST PART (QQ. Thus from the very operation of the intellect it is made clear that the intellectual principle is united to the body as its form. Now the accidents of Christ's body are in this sacrament by means of the substance; so that the accidents of Christ's body have no immediate relationship either to this sacrament or to adjacent bodies; consequently they do not act on the medium so as to be seen by any corporeal eye. Nor is there any deception there, as occurs in the feats of magicians, because such species is divinely formed in the eye in order to represent some truth, namely, for the purpose of showing that Christ's body is truly under this sacrament; just as Christ without deception appeared to the disciples who were going to Emmaus. Question 76 - OF THE UNION OF BODY AND SOUL (In . Theol.Imprimatur. 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. Evang. Nor is it less impossible for anything to be a medium between substance and accident. Further, if the whole soul is in each part of the body, each part of the body is immediately dependent on the soul. For the nature of each thing is shown by its operation. Therefore it is not united to the body as its form. Therefore if the intellect and Socrates are united in the above manner, the action of the intellect cannot be attributed to Socrates. 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. But Christ's eye beholds Himself as He is in this sacrament. From which it is evident that the dimensions of the bread or wine are not changed into the dimensions of the body of Christ, but substance into substance. 3 - OF THE SIMPLICITY OF GOD (EIGHT ARTICLES) Question. Further, the human body is a mixed body. On the contrary, The place and the object placed must be equal, as is clear from the Philosopher (Phys. It seems that the body of Christ, as it is in this sacrament, can be seen by the eye, at least by a glorified one. We observe in matter various degrees of perfection, as existence, living, sensing, and understanding. Reply to Objection 1. But a form which requires variety in the parts, such as a soul, and specially the soul of perfect animals, is not equally related to the whole and the parts: hence it is not divided accidentally when the whole is divided. Is the intellectual principle multiplied numerically according to the number of bodies or is there one intelligence for all men? That it is entire in each part thereof, may be concluded from this, that since a whole is that which is divided into parts, there are three kinds of totality, corresponding to three kinds of division. Reply to Objection 4. And therefore it is not necessary for Christ to be in this sacrament as in a place. Reply to Objection 4. ii) that "when our pretense is referred to some significance, it is not a lie, but a figure of the truth." Further, what is spiritual is connected with what is corporeal by virtual contact. The distinction between Socrates and Plato would be no other than that of one man with a tunic and another with a cloak; which is quite absurd. Secondly, it is in keeping with the use of this sacrament, that Christ's body be shown apart to the faithful as food, and the blood as drink. Therefore, for like reason, the glorified eye can see Christ as He is in this sacrament. Now mingling does not result from matter alone; for then we should have mere corruption. Objection 3. But the soul is a substantial form; and therefore it must be the form and the act, not only of the whole, but also of each part. Wherefore matter, once understood as corporeal and measurable, can be understood as distinct in its various parts, and as receptive of different forms according to the further degrees of perfection. I answer that, If the soul, according to the Platonists, were united to the body merely as a motor, it would be right to say that some other bodies must intervene between the soul and body of man, or any animal whatever; for a motor naturally moves what is distant from it by means of something nearer. The Perfection of God 5. Reviewed by Christopher Martin, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas (TX) 2015.04.21 Therefore we must say, in accordance with the Philosopher (De Gener. Therefore, for the same reason, every other glorified eye can see Him. Are all the dimensions of Christ's body in this sacrament? For this reason we observe that there is a greater variety of parts in perfect than in imperfect animals; and in these a greater variety than in plants. But Christ's body has already begun to be in this sacrament by the consecration of the bread. Objection 1. And therefore in this sacrament the blood is consecrated apart from the body, but no other part is consecrated separately from the rest. By the power of the sacrament there is contained under it, as to the species of the bread, not only the flesh, but the entire body of Christ, that is, the bones the nerves, and the like. For this reason the human soul retains its own existence after the dissolution of the body; whereas it is not so with other forms. I answer that, As stated above (Article 1), any part of Christ is in this sacrament in two ways: in one way, by the power of the sacrament; in another, from real concomitance. Therefore it is not properly united to a corruptible body. Reply to Objection 3. Further, the Philosopher says (De Anima. vii 2), difference is derived from the form. Therefore there are not many human souls in one species. POWER: The power of God (25), the principle of the divine operation as proceeding to the exterior effect. Is the intellectual principle united to the body as its form? I answer that, Since the form is not for the matter, but rather the matter for the form, we must gather from the form the reason why the matter is such as it is; and not conversely. If, then, Christ's blood be contained under the species of bread, just as the other parts of the body are contained there, the blood ought not to be consecrated apart, just as no other part of the body is consecrated separately. It would seem that the whole soul is not in each part of the body; for the Philosopher says in De causa motus animalium (De mot. The second part addresses ethics, habits, law, faith, wisdom, self-control, morality, prophecy, miracles, and the contemplative life. But to be united to matter belongs to the form by reason of its nature; because form is the act of matter, not by an accidental quality, but by its own essence; otherwise matter and form would not make a thing substantially one, but only accidentally one. The embryo has first of all a soul which is merely sensitive, and when this is removed, it is supplanted by a more perfect soul, which is both sensitive and intellectual: as will be shown further on (I:118:2 ad 2). Now everything that moves itself is divided into two parts, of which one moves, and the other is moved, as the Philosopher proves (Phys. v, 1), since it is a being only potentially; indeed everything that is moved is a body. Objection 2. Now it is clear that the intellectual soul, by virtue of its very being, is united to the body as its form; yet, after the dissolution of the body, the intellectual soul retains its own being. Therefore, it cannot begin again to be there by the consecration of the wine; and so Christ's body will not be contained under the species of the wine, and accordingly neither the entire Christ. Reply to Objection 1. Reply to Objection 4. So when we say that Socrates or Plato understands, it is clear that this is not attributed to him accidentally; since it is ascribed to him as man, which is predicated of him essentially. The spiritual soul of a human being is the substantial form of the living man. But Christ's body is at rest in heaven. The place in which Christ's body is, is not empty; nor yet is it properly filled with the substance of Christ's body, which is not there locally, as stated above; but it is filled with the sacramental species, which have to fill the place either because of the nature of dimensions, or at least miraculously, as they also subsist miraculously after the fashion of substance. Therefore a form cannot be without its own proper matter. Objection 1. This is the case with every form which, if considered as an act, is very distant from matter, which is a being only in potentiality. 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