Now, continued Averroes, if time were uniquely associated with this and only this motion, then one's sensing and being aware of time would be associated with one's sensing and being aware of the heavens' motion.
According to Simplicius, Peripatetic interpreters, including Alexander of Aphrodisias, accepted that God was a final cause of the entire world, that God's moving the heavens made him indirectly the efficient cause of sublunar motion, and that he was also the efficient cause of the heavens' motion, but not of their existence as a substance (in Cael. 271,13 21; in Phys. 1360,24 1363,24).
Our undergoing change, however, Averroes quickly added, only results from the heavens' undergoing motion, and should per impossibile the heavens cease moving, then we would no longer undergo change.
The poem follows two traditional sets of motions common to Freemason writing that mimic the image of Jacob's Ladder: movement from earth to heaven and movement from heaven to earth.
"That God could not move the heavens with rectilinear motion; and the reason is that a vacuum would remain".
Artists like Nancy Holt and Charles Ross created work aligned to the heavens, to the motion of the stars and sun, seeking to connect to something larger than avant-garde movements, planetary motion as their guiding principle.
In German, it's time to Himmel und Hölle in Bewegung setzen — put heaven and hell in motion.
But it seems at least as likely that the "first effect" mentioned here is the world of the heavens: by creating the heavens and setting them in motion, God indirectly brings about things in the sublunary world (see further below, 5.2).
Leaning out into the traffic, he said, "Now I am going to switch from the sublime motion of the heavens to the mundane motion of the cars" — and gave a little talk, his voice occasionally cracking, on the timing patterns of the city's thousands of stoplights.
The circular motion of the heavens was imparted by the outermost sphere, which they called the primum mobile, or first mover, and associated with God.
