The Most Secret Rosary of the Philosophers

of the rational soul. But that which has fewer angles is closer to the nobler and simpler, just as a triangle is closer to the simple than a quadrilateral, since it has fewer boundaries. Our simple, unmixed principle is round; therefore, it is a simple body having no angle. Leave behind, therefore, the mixed and use the simpler, because it is the genus of genera and the form of forms; for it is first and last in the planets, just as the sun is among the stars. I shall therefore transfer the discourse to things that are homogeneous in nature, even if they are strong. For in things that have a symbol shared nature or signature, the transition is easy. Therefore, since your inquiry is about the genus of both luminaries of the world, it is necessary to choose in it that which is homogeneous to them. And certainly, since this genus is greatly appropriated to man, we know that the work will not be perfected except through it. Wherefore it is described thus by Aristotle to Alexander: The diadems of kings are decorated with precious stones, by whose beauty the sight is aided, the mind is delighted, dignity is adorned, and by their virtue the most serious illnesses are expelled from bodies...