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

And if they reverse this against us with respect to God’s
knowledge, God’s knowledge is not attached to its object in
its correspondence with the things known, in the way this
attachment exists in the case of things known by created
beings, but as soon as the soul of the sphere moves round
like the soul of man, ‘ it belongs to the same kind as the soul
of man, and also it participates with the soul of man in the
perception of individuals through an intermediary. , And
although no absolute knowledge can be had about this, it is
most probable that the soul of the sphere is of the same kind
as the human soul; and if this is not most probable, it is
possible, and the possibility destroys the claim to absolute
knowledge they put forward.
And if it is said, ‘It is also proper to the human soul in its
essence to perceive all things, but its preoccupation with the
consequences of passion, anger, greed, resentment, envy,
hunger, pain, and in short the accidents of the body and
what the sensations convey to the body, is so great that,
when the human soul is occupied with one of these things, it
neglects everything else; but the souls of the spheres are
free from these attributes, and nothing occupies them, and
neither care nor pain nor perception overwhelms them, and
therefore they know everything’-we answer: ‘How do you
know that nothing occupies them? Does not their service of
the First and their longing for Him submerge them and keep
them from the representation of particular things? And what
makes it impossible to suppose other impediments than
anger and passion? For these are sensual hindrances, and
how do you know that these hindrances are limited in the
way we experience them? For there are occupations for the
learned through the excellence of their interests and the
desire for leadership which children are unable to imagine,
and which they cannot believe to be occupations and
hindrances. ‘ And how do you know that analogous things
are impossible for the souls of the spheres? ‘
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