Filozofların Tutarsızlığı: Feyz ve İlk Sebep

This doctrine was abandoned by Avicenna and the rest of the exacting philosophers. They claimed that the First knows Himself as the principle for the emanation of what emanates from Him, and He apprehends all existents in their kinds by a universal, not particular, apprehension. For they found it reprehensible for someone to say the First Principle produces only one intellect and then does not apprehend what proceeds from Him. His effect is an intellect from which an intellect, a soul of a sphere, and a body of a sphere emanate, and this effect apprehends itself, its three effects, its cause, and its principle. Thus, the effect would be nobler than the cause, since only one thing emanated from the cause, while three things emanated from this effect. And the First would apprehend only Himself, while this effect would apprehend itself, the Principle itself, and the effects themselves. Whoever is content that his statement about God reduces to this rank has rendered Him more lowly than every existent that apprehends itself and Him. For that which apprehends Him and apprehends itself is nobler than He, since He would apprehend only Himself.