God does not have the attributes of a Christian Providence, for it would derogate from His perfection to think about anything except what is perfect, i.e. Himself. ‘It must be of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking’ (1074b). We must infer that God does not know of the existence of our sublunary world. Aristotle, like Spinoza, holds that, while men must love God, it is impossible that God should love men.

Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosop…, loc. 752