Liber de Causis (The Book of Causes)

Foreword 1
by Bernardo Carlos Bazán

Translator's Introduction

    A. Title, Date, Authorship 4
    B. Significance of the Text 7
    C. Text and Translation 12
    D. Conventions 15
    E. Acknowledgements 16

The Book of Causes

    I. The Fundamental Theorem of Causality 19

    II. The Three Grades of Higher Being: The First Cause, 21
    Intelligence, Soul
The original text used the word "Gardes," which is a typographical error for "Grades."

    III. The Participation of Soul in the First Cause and in 21
    Intelligence

    IV. The Distinction between Intelligence and Soul 22

    V. On the First Cause 23

    VI. On the Substance of Intelligence 24

    VII. How Intelligence Understands the Higher and the 25
    Lower Things