You Must Consider, When Reading This Treatise,

Those Who Believe That... Detailed Rules Originate In A Certain Cause, Are As Far From The Truth As Those Who Assume That The Whole Law Is Useless.

You Will See The Mercy Of God Toward His Creatures, How He Has Provided That Which Is Required, In Proper Proportions, And Treated All Individual Beings Of The Same Species With Perfect Equality. ...for It Is An Act Of Great And Perfect Goodness That He Gave Us Existence; And The Creation Of The Controlling Faculty In Animals Is A Proof Of His Mercy Towards Them, As Has Been Shown By Us.

The Corporeal Element In Man Is A Large Screen And Partition That Prevents Him From Perfectly Perceiving Abstract Ideals; This Would Be The Case Even If The Corporeal Element Were As Pure And Superior As The Substance Of The Spheres ; How Much More Must This Be The Case With Our Dark And Opaque Body. However Great The Exertion Of Our Mind May Be To Comprehend The Divine Being Or Any Of The Ideals, We Find A Screen And Partition Between God And Us.

Nobody Is Ever Impoverished Through The Giving Of Charity.

All Forces That Reside In The Body Are Angels.