Anonymous (Kalam fi mahd al-khair) prop bardenhewer 3 · pattin prop 3 · bardenhewer page 63-65

كلّ نفس شريفة فهى ذات ثلثة افاعيل فعل نفسانىّ وفعل عقلىّ وفعل الاهىّ فامّا الفعل الالاهىّ فانّها تدبّر الطبيعة بالقوّة التى فيها من العلّة الاولى وامّا فعلها العقلىّ فانّها تعلم الاشياء بقوّة العقل التى فيها وامّا الفعل النفسانىّ فانّها تحرّك الجرم الاوّل وجميع الاجرام الطبيعيّة لانّها هى علّة حركة الاجرام وفعل الطبيعة وانّما فعلت النفس هذه الافاعيل لانّها مثال من القوّة العالية وذلك انّ العلّة الاولى ابدعت انّيّة النفس بتوسّط العقل ولذلك صارت النفس تفعل فعلا الاهيّا فلمّا ابدعت العلّة الاولى انّيّة النفس صيّرتها كبساط العقل يفعل العقل فيها افاعيله فلذلك صارت النفس العقليّة تفعل فعلا عقليّا فلمّا قبلت النفس تأثير العقل صارت ادنى فعلا منه فى تأثيرها فيما تحتها وذلك لانّها لا تؤثّر فى الاشياء الّا بحركة اعنى لانّه لا يقبل ما تحتها فعلها الّا ان تحرّكه فلهذه العلّة صارت النفس تحرّك الاجرام فانّ من خاصّة النفس ان تحيى الاجسام اذا افاضت عليها قوّتها وتسدّدها ايضا الى الفعل الصواب فقد وضح الآن انّ النفس ذات افاعيل ثلثة لانّها ذات قوًا ثلثة قوّة الاهيّة وقوّة عقليّة وقوّة ذاتيّة على ما وصفنا وبيّنّا

Every noble soul has three operations: a soul-operation, an intellectual operation, and a divine operation. As for the divine operation, it is that soul governs nature by the power that is in it from the first cause. As for its intellectual operation, it is that soul knows things by the power of intellect that is in it. And as for the soul-operation, it is that soul moves the first body and all the natural bodies, because soul is the cause of the motion of bodies and of the operation of nature. And soul performs these operations only because it is an image of the higher power. That is because the first cause brought into being the being of soul through the mediation of intellect, and for that reason soul came to perform a divine operation. For when the first cause brought into being the being of soul, it made it as a carpet for intellect, upon which intellect performs its operations; and for that reason the intellectual soul came to perform an intellectual operation. And when soul received the effect of intellect, it came to have an operation lower than intellect's in its effect upon what is below it. And that is because soul does not act upon things except by motion — I mean because what is below it does not receive its operation unless it moves it. For this cause soul came to move bodies, since it is proper to soul to give life to bodies when it pours its power upon them, and to direct them also to the right operation. It has now become evident that soul has three operations, because it has three powers: a divine power, an intellectual power, and a power of its own, according to what we have described and set out.

Plate-verified: transcribed line by line from the page images of Bardenhewer 1882 (leaves n83-n104 of archive.org diepseudoaristo00bardgoog).

In the crux Liber de causis, proposition 3