 Given the preeminence of intellectual beings in the created order, it should be no surprise that most of God’s creative efforts went into their establishment. This is, primarily, the domain of the angels, who “exceed in number, incomparably, material substances” (ST 1a 50.3c). The angels are wholly immaterial beings, which makes them unlike us (§5) and unlike the created world with which we are directly acquainted, which is a material world. So, if we set aside the realm of immaterial minds—God, angels, the human soul—we are left with a world of material objects, suitable to be understood in terms of an Aristotelian hylomorphic (matter–form) analysis.