There are three kinds of intellects that exist through their essence: the separated intelligences, celestial bodies, and human intellects.
The conclusion that Dietrich wishes to draw is that the intellect, being always in act through its essence, contains in itself the whole universe of beings, which shine forth from it into the cosmos.
So there are two demonstrative stages in any science, the demonstration of the existence of the subject (quia), and the demonstration of the properties of the subject through its essence (propter quid).
Ockham agreed with Scotus and Aquinas that the definition of the subject is the middle term in a demonstration of the highest sort, but he is no more comfortable with the notion that the subject somehow efficiently causes an attribute in itself through its essence than is Albert.
In the realm of intellects, Dietrich tells us, we discover a fourfold order in which intellectual reality stands: at the top of this order is found what Dietrich calls intellects existing through their essence, followed by intelligent spiritual substances that are called angels, and then species and finally the individual realities included in species that are known to mind.
My father, through the essence of what he was, thought there should be no divisions, that this is wrong, that this is not what God wants.
It wades through an essence of tranquility but never loses its grip on the melody as it drives to the end. .
Bridget is a "bridge" to a new world paradigm connecting people to higher frequencies beings and energies through her essence paintings, mediumship, books and projects.
It's what the spirit did as it inhabited the body, the impact it made as it burned through, the revelation of its essence through the murk of earthly existence, that I want to catch.Some motif, or some small incident, will usually provide the key.
In a state of juvenile innocence, the mind absorbs the essence through all the dross.
