In the previous chapter I reviewed the structure of a pre-modern sense of embodiment. It is this primary cosmological perspective which provides the context for an analysis of the pre-modern self, thinking, feeling and perceiving in a world very different from our own. The argument that I am advancing throughout this book is that the way we reason is intimately bound in with our understanding of the world, and our pre-conceptual sense of being in the world. In this chapter I address the philosophical conceptualisation of the world which was achieved in the theory of the transcendentals. The theory of the transcendentals affirmed the primacy of being, the good and the true, as rooted in the divine causality itself, together with their equivalence or ‘convertibility’. It therefore turned on the belief that the world is fundamentally united and is so on account of the common relation of all that exists with the Creator God.