In particular, Aquinas believed in a rationally ordered universe which reflected in its laws and structure the rationality of the divine mind. Since the human intellect was a created derivative of the eternal mind of God, it was itself capable of judging what was and what was not in accordance with 'right reason', or the rational norms imprinted on the cosmos by its creator. In other words the intellect was capable of making moral judgements necessarily accorded with divine law because both were based on the same rational norms. For Aquinas the norm of morality was the conformity of some particular object with the rationally perceived end of man, and this norm was necessarily in accordance with the divine law and the natural law, which was its reflection.