that is complete according to your definition, or it is not. If it is, all these events must be eternal; if it is not, all of them must be impossible, since its causal efficacy cannot subsequently become complete.

Their attempt to explain this by saying that complete causal efficacy lies in the ninth celestial sphere, whose motion prepares recipients for existence and perfection to emanate upon them, does not remove this manifest contradiction. For the totality of the factors through which these effects occur constitutes the complete cause. The coming into being of this totality must therefore either proceed from a complete cause or not. If it does not proceed from a complete cause requiring the effect to coexist with it, their claim that an effect proceeds only from a complete cause with which it must coexist is refuted. If it does proceed from a complete cause with which the effect must coexist, then, if that cause is eternal, these effects must be eternal. If it is brought into being, the same argument applies to the cause of its coming into being as before. This is a conclusive argument