This point may be true however, they, being the eyes, do so by receiving the forms analytically, as things deprived of matter and not as matter . Additionally, receiving objects this way implies that they only obtain the color shapes. They are always bodily structures; they are still subject to the material influence of other forms such as cold or mildness. By stating that the spirit obtains all forms, it is said that the spirit is not materially influenced at all and is therefore pure, that is, not corporeal in any way but completely separate from everything. As long as the eye or any other bodily organ of sensation can be said to experience an analytical reception of form, you are always led to infer that the intellect has no material state being given that he knows