Albertus Magnus

“ It must be said that it is false and heretical to say that the intellectual soul descends from a star. For this was the opinion of the Egyptian philosophers33, that the intellectual souls, made in the stars by the god of gods, are weighed down by the earthly affection with which they are sometimes affected; and that gravity brings down generable and corruptible bodies. Purified by the same, through the worship of piety and justice, they are received back to the stars. ”

“ This can also be seen by reason, because of those whose essential act is one, their nature seems to be one. Yet, the heavenly and human intelligence in the conception of truth seem to be one essential act, therefore belonging to one nature. ”

“ They said that the earthly affection reaches the intellectual soul in the same way that the soul is affected by the sweetness of the nourishment of the body. For it is posited that the bodies of the planets are nourished by the very fine vapor of the Maeotid marshes. They are situated between the two solstices, between which is the greatest movement of the planets, so that when they attract it by gravity they are depressed and pushed back, and when they build up the same, they are raised and directed by their speed. ”