5p33sc.md (543B)
1 Although this love towards God has (by the foregoing 2 Prop.) no beginning, it yet possesses all the perfections of 3 love, just as though it had arisen as we feigned in the Coroll. 4 of the last Prop. Nor is there here any difference, except that 5 the mind possesses as eternal those same perfections which we 6 feigned to accrue to it, and they are accompanied by the idea of 7 God as eternal cause. If pleasure consists in the transition to 8 a greater perfection, assuredly blessedness must consist in the 9 mind being endowed with perfection itself. 10 11