ABSTRACT
The Arabs of Spain imported into Europe ideas derived from the Neoplatonist fusion of Aristotle, Plato and any number of others bringing philosophy nearer to religion, mysticism and magic. The Arab fusion was made easier by confusion about widely-used texts like the Theology of Aristotle, which was really Plotinus, and the Liber de causis derived, probably through an Arab adaptation, from Proclus. Aquinas realized that the Liber de causis was not by Aristotle, but the thought was hardly disturbing since Christian theology, with the independence and assurance of revelation, had already assimilated and digested whatever met its needs from a variety of sources.
