Q.E.D.
Note .-- Although this love towards God has (by the foregoing Prop.) no beginning, it yet possesses all the perfections of love, just as though it had arisen as we feigned in the Coroll.
of the last Prop.

Nor is there here any difference, except that the mind possesses as eternal those same perfections which we feigned to accrue to it, and they are accompanied by the idea of God as eternal cause.

If pleasure consists in the transition to a greater perfection, assuredly blessedness must consist in the mind being endowed with perfection itself.
PROP.XXXIV.

The mind is, only while the body endures, subject to those emotions which are attributable to passions.
Proof .-- Imagination is the idea wherewith the mind contemplates a thing as present (II.xvii.

note); yet this idea indicates rather the present disposition of the human body than the nature of the external thing (II.xvi.Coroll.