WOF 342: Breaking Through the Buffered Self
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What Is That Quid Sit?
The mind relentlessly pushes us beyond this merely animal level of perception, spurred on by what aquinas terms the intellectus agens. Intellectus in actu est intelligible in acto thee intelligence is actualized by the intelligibility. The inquirer has moved from the visible to the invisible. He 's been drawn out of this self preoccupation and into a new spiritual pase. This type of question is not merely the fruit of intellectual curiosity, but also of a real transcendence of the immediate needs and concerns of the ego.
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