Sefer ha-Ḥus ṿeha-Muḥash me-Ḳitsur ibn Rushd (Hebrew MS 28)

For where the soul exists from itself, and it has created for itself a body that lives more than it, and moves it to be divided from it, there it is able to be likened to the one who acts without a body. For anything that proceeds from the wise creation, when it is a complete life, is likened to the one who made it. It lives even as it is. For the rational speech, or the order of the Word original: "ܡܠܬܐ" (Melta), a term often used in Syriac theology for the Logos or Divine Reason, is a genus from a simple mover. And where it is light, it does not desire to be in darkness, nor does it desire to be divided from the wise and thoughtful speech, and from those things that befit it. Because even the thoughtful soul is unable to be wise unless it is in pure simplicity. And while it is in the body, it does not desire to be bodily, but is illuminated, as in a likeness, so that it does not become content with baseness and volatility. And in this it is said to us: just as the body does not live except from the soul, and the soul itself cannot live except in the one that serves it, and the body is not a prison for the soul, nor does it fail to live in the likeness of the body; but just as the body lives by the power of the soul, like the heavens which are directed by the power of God, or like the body of the soul which is directed by the wisdom of the Word—and not the lives of the dead, as people say, because our lives are as if living, even if they are bodies. But from other natures, we can learn that while the body is changeable, it is from a mover that is not a body. But the soul is from spiritual and living wisdom, and it gives life to that body which was created from it, in the likeness of that which is sent from God to it, the soul. And this is what we say: that while the soul is from the wisdom of God, its life also is from that wisdom, just as the body of the flesh is from the soul, and its living beings are from the soul. And if the soul leaves the body, the body is dissolved; but the soul, when it departs from the body, is not dissolved, because its life is from the wisdom that directs it. And it does not receive dissolution, but stands by the life which it has received from wisdom.