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authorities that memory is in the image of the Father, intelligence of the Son, and will of the Holy Spirit. For just as memory contains within itself and generates intelligence from itself, and will is in both and proceeds from both, so the Son is in the Father and is eternally begotten by the Father, and the Holy Spirit proceeds from both. And thus memory, intelligence, and will are three and one, namely the mind; so the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three in persons and one God in substance; and thus singulars are in singulars and in all. So will is in memory and intelligence and in the understanding, and memory in the will; thus the properties of the three persons are found in singular persons and in all. Thus our intelligence, through the vocal word, passes outwardly to the cognition of men, cooperating with the will; so the Son, co-eternal with the Father, through the operation of the Holy Spirit, passed sensibly through human flesh to human aspects; and when the intelligence brought forth through the word comes to cognition, that same intelligence is and will be in the memory; thus it was, so the Son was from eternity and will be in the Father, although His humanity was shown to us as to be imitated in human visions. But may the blindness of my heart pass over the divine nature as undiscussed, since the matter of the proposed journey does not require it, so that since it is written "The beast that touches the mountain shall be stoned," because the beastly dullness of my mind silences even the spark of divine light.
Since I have brought together certain things useful for understanding from the authority of the doctors regarding the powers of the soul through which it performs its actions, it now remains to narrate compendiously some edifying things concerning the soul and its definition. And note, just as the heart has individual organs and members for individual exterior exercises, so the soul has individual and diverse powers suitable for individual and diverse actions. Whence the soul is often substituted for its singular power, as when it is called vegetative or sensible in man, or it is called mind, or memory, or life. The same soul is also called now soul, now spirit, and it is called soul insofar as it animates and vivifies the body