806. There are those who have loved only such things and made them essentials, when nevertheless they are but the lowest means. Such persons always imagine to themselves that these things are supreme, as is usual with the common people, because they are mediate causes leading to interior, and so to more interior, things. Such a person does not ascend by means of thoughts beyond such things, on account of his love of them and the phantasies therefrom, still less does he ascend to things universal; consequently his end has not been that he might make further use of them.