“Form is that by which a thing is⁠ ⁠… This principle therefore, by which we first think, whether it be called intellect, or intellectual soul, is the form of the body.”

And Spenser, “Hymne in Honour of Beautie,” says:⁠—

“For of the soule the bodie forme doth take,

For soule is forme and doth the bodie make.”

“For of the soule the bodie forme doth take, For soule is forme and doth the bodie make.”

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Joachim di Flora, Dante’s “Calabrian Abbot Joachim,” the mystic of the twelfth century, says in his Exposition of the Apocalypse :⁠—