Tahafut_al-Tahafut-transl-Engl-van-den-Bergh

I say:
any case, has to be proved, since by itself it is a mere
presumption.
What he mentions here is, to my knowledge, not said by any
philosophers except Avicenna, namely that the heavenly bodies have
representations, not to speak of the fact that these representations should
be infinite, and Alexander of Aphrodisias explains in his book called The
Principles of the Universe that these bodies have no representations,
because representations exist only in animals because of their
conservation, and these bodies do not fear corruption, and with respect to
them representations would be valueless (and likewise sensations). ‘ If
they had representations they would also have sensations, since
sensations are the condition for representations and every being which
has representations necessarily has sensations, although the reverse is
not true . Therefore to interpret the indelible tablet in the way Ghazali says
that they do is not correct, and the only possible interpretation of the
separate intellects which move the different spheres by means of
subordination is that they are the angels in the proximity of God, s if one
wants to harmonize the conclusions of reason with the statements of the
Holy Law.
Ghazali says:
And they prove this by saying that the circular movement
is voluntary and that the will follows the thing willed, b and
that a universal thing willed can only be intended by a
universal will, and that from the universal will nothing
proceeds. For-so they say-every actual existent is
determined and individual, and the relation of the universal
will to the individual units is one and the same, and no
individual thing proceeds from it. Therefore an individual will
is needed for a definite movement. For every particular
movement from every definite point to another definite point
the sphere has a will, and this sphere no doubt has a
representation of this particular movement through a bodily
potency, since individuals only perceive through bodily
potencies and every will must of necessity represent the
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