" Musa was only born being a synthesis of many spirits. He was a concentration of effective
forces since the young have an effect on the old. Do you not see how the child has an effect
on the older person by the special quality the child has? The older person descends from his
leading position to play with the child and rock him in his arms and to show himself at the
child's level of intellect he descends to the level of the child's intellect. He is under
subjugation even though he is not aware of it. He occupies himself with instructing and
protecting the child, seeing to his needs and consoling him so that the child is not distressed. "

― Ibn Arabi , The Bezels of Wisdom