and know Him through the knowledge that befits it, within its capacity to receive, nothing else. For this reason you see some possible things precede others or follow them, rise or descend, and vary through different states and ranks: appointment and dismissal, craft and commerce, motion and stillness, union and separation, and the like. It is the turning of possible things within possible things: they turn within nothing else.
(The Divisions of Servitude and Emancipation from Causes)
The servitude that does not admit emancipation is servitude to God. Servitude has three divisions: servitude to God, servitude to creation, and servitude to the state—which is servanthood, in which he is attributed to himself. Of these three, only servitude to creation admits emancipation.
It has two divisions. One is servitude within freedom: their servitude to causes. They are slaves of causes even if they are free. The other is slavery of ownership, slavery as commonly known, which admits buying and selling. Emancipation enters it and removes him from a creature’s ownership.
Perplexity remains concerning the ownership exercised by causes: can one leave enslavement to causes or not? Whoever sees that causes necessarily rule over him and that leaving them is impossible except in estimation, not in the actual nature of things, says, “Emancipation from bondage to causes is not valid.”
Whoever upholds the particular face, which is
