Moreover, every intellect is by nature an intelligible, since it is naturally suited to receive in itself the inscription of the universe of the intelligibles, it is evident that, when it has received this inscription, it will be like a model of the universe and like a book of its complete inscription.
Moreover, since the intellect is a mirror by nature, that is, it is naturally suited for all intelligible forms to be reflected in it, and since the form of anything can naturally be reflected in it, it is naturally a mirror of it. Every intellect, then, is naturally a mirror of each and every intelligible and of the whole intelligible universe.
[William of Auvergne, The Universe of Creatures, Tesk, tr., Marquette University Press (Milwaukee: 1998) p. 155.]
