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Often appears with: the passions and the emotions · reason and the intellect · providence and divine governance · effects and bodily signs · conscience · angels secret thoughts
Usually: argument (1) · crisis of belief (1) · detachment (1)
Thomas denies that angels can read secret thoughts in the mind directly, though they can infer hidden thoughts from effects or bodily signs and they can know will-related matters only as permitted by God.
even when conceived in thought, when the soul expresses them by certain signs in the body"; although (Retract. ii, 30) he says "it cannot be asserted how this is done." In another way thoughts can be known as they are in the mind, and affections as they are in the will: and thus God alone can know the thoughts of hearts and affections of wills. The reason of this is, because the rational creature is subject to God o…