In so far as it has adequate ideas it is necessarily active, and in so far as it has inadequate ideas, it is necessarily passive.
Proof .-- In every human mind there are some adequate ideas, and some ideas that are fragmentary and confused (II.xl.

note).
Those ideas which are adequate in the mind are adequate also in God, inasmuch as he constitutes the essence of the mind (II.

xl.
Coroll.), and those which are inadequate in the mind are likewise (by the same Coroll.) adequate in God, not inasmuch as he contains in himself the essence of the given mind alone, but as he, at the same time, contains the minds of other things.

Again, from any given idea some effect must necessarily follow (I.36); of this effect God is the adequate cause (III.Def.

i.), not inasmuch as he is infinite, but inasmuch as he is conceived as affected by the given idea (II.