Illumination: acquired knowledge helped by God's influence
Thesis XCIV. For him this illumination of the mind is simply a set of notions received from an external preacher or from some other source, and helped by a special, supernatural influence of God so that they are in some way already fitted for salvation. He observes that when God enlightens people in the ordinary way he does not send into them new species and ideas from which that knowledge arises, the knowledge through whose intervention their minds are enlightened.
That knowledge arises through species acquired in the human way and stirred up by preachers or by some other means. God inserts himself into them by his influence, so that this knowledge becomes more or less fitted for salvation, in proportion as his influence is greater or smaller. On Molina's view, then, for God to enlighten is nothing else than to cooperate in this way, by his influence, in the kinds of knowledge that rouse the will.
Latin
XCIV. Ista vero mentis illuminatio ipsi nihil est aliud, quam notitiae quaedam ab externo concionatore, aut aliunde acceptae, & a Deo peculiari, & supernaturali influxu adjutae, ut aliquo modo jam ad salutem accommodatae sint. Observat enim Deum illis quos ordinaria ratione illuminat, non immittere novas species & ideas, quibus fiant cognitiones illae, quarum interventu mens eorum illustratur; sed cognitiones illas fieri per species humano modo acquisitas, & a concionatoribus, aut alia aliqua ratione excitatas, quibus Deus se inserit per suum influxum, ut cognitiones istae ad salutem plus minus accommodatae fiant, pro ratione majoris, vel minoris influxus. Quare, ex ejus sententia, Deum illuminare non aliud est, quam illo modo influxu suo cooperari ad tales cognitiones quibus voluntas excitatur.