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What does intellection mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word intellection? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding.
  2. (countable) A particular act of grasping by means of the intellect.
  3. (countable) The mental content of an act of grasping by means of the intellect, as a thought, idea, or conception.
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But how in the first place do we get from potential intellect to actual intellection?
Averroes and Avicenna both teach that the human and active intellect conjoin in the moment of intellection.
Artists are the journeymen and women of the mind, labouring on the construction sites of perception, intellection and exchange.
Shorr today, more than ever before, is stressing artificiality over realism, the virtual over the veristic, intellection over intuition.
God's omniform essence is always the content of perception, intellection and passion.
Rays from it are deflected toward the concrete, to function as intellection.

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