 Our intention in this book is to indicate the aim that is contained in the treatise of Aristotle called Metaphysics, and [to indicate] its primary divisions. For many people have followed their fancy that the meaning and content of this treatise is the account of the Creator (glory be to Him and be He exalted!) and the intelligence and the soul and the other things that are related to these, and that the science of metaphysics and the science of  theology[2]  are one and the same. And thus we find that most of those who investigate [this treatise] are confused and go astray, since we find that most of the account in it lacks this aim, indeed we do not find in it any special discussion of this aim except what is in the eleventh book, which bears the sign lam [L or  Λ].[3]