156. (17) But both actual experience and also theory confirm the fact that the human intellect proper depends on the imagination, and but little on its pure intellect; yea, that the imagination depends more on sensation than on its intellect or thought; and consequently that our intellect is very impure and is of such a nature that it deserves rather to be called spurious and adulterous. And yet to us it appears so seemly and pure that it is believed to be the soul itself-which latter is not only pure intellect but also spiritual intelligence. How false this is appears clearly from the bare proposition. Indeed, our intellect is often so alienated from the pure intellect that they contend against each other, the former acknowledging things of the world as verities, and the latter knowing inmostly that they are pure lies, and that the adornments which enable them to appear on the scene and be applauded as verities are fallacies.
