Motion in the Arcs of Ascent & Descent

Motion which is defined as the transition or the transference of a body from a state of potentiality to a state of actuality, and being one of the Aristotelian categories, is an accident; now an accident is a quiddity which is dependent upon a subject or a substrate for its subsistence or realization in concrete reality; and since motion is also an accident therefore it is also in need of a subject or a substrate in which to inhere for realization or subsistence in concrete existence; now this subject or substrate of motion is a body, which is defined as a three dimensional substance; now all bodies are corporealized and material and as a consequence of this are temporal and spatial realities that possess a specific direction and position, and being material in character all bodies are composites of an existent actuality and an expected potentiality for the reception of some new incoming form; without the existence of a potential for receiving form there can be no motion or movement; now the separate intellects are substances that are completely devoid of matter and material attributes such as being temporal or spatial or the possession of a particular direction and position; these Noble substances being incorporeal in character are also devoid of form since form is a substance that actualizes and perfects matter, but since these immaterial intellects are absolutely devoid of matter, therefore they do not possess any form as well; and since in order to be a body it is necessary to possess corporeal form therefore these incorporeal intellects are bodiless, and being such they cannot be subject to motion, and hence there can be no motion in the arc of descent; therefore in the arc of descent a cause will forever eternally remain nobler and more exalted than it's effects and an effect will forever remain inferior to its causes; however the human soul can through substantial motion which is a compulsory natural motion involving the gradual and incremental actualization of its latent potentialities, rise above this base material world to return back to it's original luminous abode of light, beauty and goodness in the proximity of Divine Realities.

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