) shines down into the understanding, which recognizes the light,
id est, lumen a luce spirituali quasi alienigenum aliquid
, which it can only comprehend or describe to itself by attributes opposite to its own essential properties. Now these latter being contingency, and (for though the immediate objects of the understanding are
genera et species
, still they are particular
genera et species
) particularity, it distinguishes the formal light (
lumen
) (not the substantial light,
lux