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=== Part I: Theology ===
{{Hatnote|This section is from the ''[[New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge]]'' (a public-domain work).}}
The first part of the ''Summa'' is summed up in the premise that [[God]] governs the world as the "universal [[first cause]]". God sways the intellect; he gives the power to know and impresses the {{Lang-la|species intelligibiles|label=none}} on the mind, and he sways the will in that he holds the good before it as aim, creating the {{Lang-la|virtus volendi|label=none}}. "To will is nothing else than a certain inclination toward the object of the volition which is the universal good." God works all in all, but so that things also themselves exert their proper efficiency. Here the [[Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite|Areopagitic]] ideas of the graduated effects of created things play their part in St. Thomas's thought.<ref name=":0" />
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