If it is true that...

In the intelligences, there is existence beyond the form

and

An intelligence is form and existence

Then it must be true that...

Everything that pertains to a thing either is caused by the principles of its own nature or comes from some extrinsic principle

If it is true that...

Everything that pertains to a thing either is caused by the principles of its own nature or comes from some extrinsic principle

and

Everything the existence of which is other than its own nature has existence from another

Then it must be true that...

There is something that is the cause of existing in all things in that this thing is existence only