 Indeed the intellectual process is welded to cosmology (in which the Ptolemaic system is painstakingly harmonized with Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Book Λ and De Caelo). The whole of the heavens is explained in terms of emanation or flow. In some texts, Avicenna mentions “ten intelligences after the First” (Ilāhiyyāt, IX, 3, 401, 9–12): the Heavens—the outermost orb, and the orb of the fixed stars, and then Saturn, and so on, up to and including, according to the traditional scheme, the animated spheres of Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon—are bound to the intelligences. The earth is at the center. Theology, metaphysics, cosmology and (celestial) noetic seem fused with one another.