Doubt II: Whether knowledge is concerned with divine things

It must be said that science concerns only created things in their order to God. Since, indeed, the soul experiences difficulty, and in a certain manner grows torpid, with respect to supernatural acts; according to the kinds of difficulty, habits are infused into it, whereby it may be made mobile for the service of the Holy Spirit: whence, since especially the will is held back from acting on account of a defect of cognition in the intellect, two habits are given to remove this defect, the first of which is concerned with created things, and concerning them passes judgment through their causes, and is called the Gift of science: the other is concerned with divine things through the most exalted principles, and it is Wisdom.

But the created things with which Science is concerned are, first, the other sciences, acquired by study and teaching, concerning which by the gift of infused science we judge rightly and with sound sense; and this, considered in this present state, the holy Doctor calls the morning hour; because it is still mixed with darkness.

Second, the Gift of science is concerned with the things to be believed and done, contained in the sacred letters. For from these it draws forth a most ardent light, whereby it inflames and illuminates the mind, as with the midday sun; of this he says, Isaias 18: As the light of midday, it is clear.

Third, this science is occupied with the other moral matters, establishing and quieting the mind in truth, lessening the labor by the intuition of eternal quiet, and bringing it to its terminus: This is the end, and the evening twilight, of this gift; on account of these things it is said, Psalm 103., says the Seraphic Doctor here at the end of chapter 1: Man goeth forth in the morning to his work, until the evening.