In the intelligences, there is existence beyond the form
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St Thomas Aquinas/On Being and Essence
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Essence is also called form, for the certitude of every thing is signified through its form 1 0 2The universality of the form does not arise from the existence the form has in the intellect but rather from its relation to things as a likeness of such things 1 0 2In every other thing, the thing's existence is one thing, and its essence or quiddity or nature or form is another 1 0 2An intelligence is form and existence 1 0 2The intelligences are form and existence and have existence from the first being, which is existence alone, and this is the first cause, which is God 1 0 2A quiddity or form that is an intelligence is in potency with respect to the existence that it receives from God, and this received existence is received as its act 1 0 2There are found in the intelligences both potency and act but not matter and form 1 0 2Potency and act exist in intelligences 1 0 2A multitude of intelligences can exist if there is potency in them 1 0 2In created intellectual substances, existence is other than essence 1 0 2