E5P40S
Scholium — Part V
Latin
Hæc sunt quæ de mente quatenus sine relatione ad corporis existentiam consideratur, ostendere constitueram; ex quibus et simul ex propositione 21 partis I et aliis apparet quod mens nostra quatenus intelligit æternus cogitandi modus sit qui alio cogitandi modo determinatur et hic iterum ab alio et sic in infinitum ita ut omnes simul Dei æternum et infinitum intellectum constituant.
English (Elwes 1883)
Such are the doctrines which I had purposed to set forth concerning the mind, in so far as it is regarded without relation to the body; whence, as also from I. xxi. and other places, it is plain that our mind, in so far as it understands, is an eternal mode of thinking, which is determined by another eternal mode of thinking, and this other by a third, and so on to infinity; so that all taken together at once constitute the eternal and infinite intellect of God.
Modern English
These are the things I set out to show concerning the mind insofar as it is considered without relation to the body's existence. From them, and from E1P21 (E1P21) and other passages together, it is apparent that our mind, insofar as it understands, is an eternal mode of thinking, determined by another eternal mode of thinking, and that one by yet another, and so on to infinity, so that all of them together constitute God's eternal and infinite intellect.