ix.).

But of that effect whereof God is the cause, inasmuch as he is affected by an idea which is adequate in a given mind, of that effect, I repeat, the mind in question is the adequate cause (II.xi.

Coroll.).

Therefore our mind, in so far as it has adequate ideas (III.Def.

ii.), is in certain cases necessarily active; this was our first point.
Again, whatsoever necessarily follows from the idea which is adequate in God, not by virtue of his possessing in himself the mind of one man only, but by virtue of his containing, together with the mind of that one man, the minds of other things also, of such an effect (II.xi.