and all of the legal commands, for they have essential realities, and lofty persons, and souls for these sensory forms active by the borrowed action

from the nominal actor, and for each of these persons is a known station and a limited rank it does not exceed it to what is besides it, and that is like the attribution of burning to the glass for example, since if a glass were placed parallel to the sun then it reflects the heat of the sun to what is behind it, and the effect of burning appears, and the glass due to its nature did not change, and likewise the action to whichever person it was, then its source is from the powerful actor, and every being possessing an accident is established by a living substance, except the eternal originator and the absolute general substance that supplies all beings, the elevated above accidents and peers, and the universe with what is in it is in need of the emanations of His existence and the downpours of His generosity.

To his saying: And the theory of forms used to predominate over Plato, for he used to see that for every individuated existent in the sensory world there is an existing form, non-individuated in the intellective world, and these forms are named the Platonic forms, that is clarified for example by his opinion on beauty,