All the objects of our experience in the sublunar world are not of this kind.
Hence it is absurd to speak of God as an element of the sublunar world.
This is another proof that they are not composed of the same material as sublunar bodies.
It is clear from this account that matter and form are the bases of sublunar life and existence.
From the Intelligence of the lunar sphere emanated the Active Intellect and the sublunar spheres of the four elements.
For Aristotle matter and form stand at the head of sublunar change and are ultimate.
Then the form united with the impure matter, and this gave rise to all the bodies in the sublunar world, which change their forms.
It is called the Active Intellect, and its business is to govern the sublunar world of generation and decay.
The lower world, the sublunar and corporeal world of generation and decay, was created in time.
All things of the sublunar world originate in matter, hence matter itself is the unoriginated, the eternal.
