It would seem to be Aristotle's final conclusion that the...

It would seem to be Aristotle's final conclusion that the Divine Mind has no knowledge of anything outside itself, and no activity except thinking about itself throughout all eternity. "The perfect God, therefore, had no idea or will to create the world or pristine matter -the ‘substance.' There is, therefore, according to Aristotle, only one way by which it can cause existence and motion, and that is by being the object of love and desire.

This 'substance' had the potentiality of existence and a desire for existence made actuality. In other words, God the existent became the desired and the loved of the potential material world, and this desire brought it into actual existence. Similarly, the world desires the absolute perfection of the Unmoved Mover and this desire impels it from deficiency toward perfection, and this process of upward movement continues everlast­ingly.

One cannot then say that God created the world, unless this process is termed creation.”[^1] "The Persians, prior to Islam, believed in two gods: a god of good called Ahura Mazda, whose authority and power were limited to the world of goodness and light, and a god of evil called Ahriman, whose authority and power were specific to the forces of evil and darkness.

These primal beings were twins and, according to one sect of Zoroastrians, were the 'sons' of the ancient god, Zurvan." "They believed that before the creation of this world the two dominions were separate. Ahura Mazda then created the material world filling it with mercy and goodness.

When Ahriman came to know about his brother's creation, he, together with his evil forces, who were devils, attacked it, marring its perfection, destroying its beauty, and filling it with evil and pain.”[^2] "Plotinus, who lived in the early part of the third century after Christ, purified the concept of God to such an extent that it went beyond all understanding.

While Aristotle thought that God's perfection prevented Him from thinking about anything but Himself, and that He knew nothing of other things in existence, Plotinus went further and claimed that the perfection of the Pure Being prevented Him from knowing even Himself.