Creation as EmanationThe Liber de causis (De causis et processu universitatis a prima causa), a monotheistic reworking of Proclus Elements of Theology, was translated from Arabic into Latin in the twelfth century, with an attribution to Aristotle. Considering this Neoplatonic text a product of Aristotle's school and even the completion of Aristotles Metaphysics, Albert the Great concluded his series of Aristotelian paraphrases by commenting on it. To do so was to invite