Panthenosia: The Composition of All Dissensions

and five superior ones in the universe, compared to that end that we may be born and attain the end: although neither God nor Christ can have any obligation to inferior things, except for the infinite abyss of goodness. This spirit, in burning fieriness, always nourishes four fires in one: the black and the red which tend downward, and the blue and the white which tend upward, which one may observe anywhere. Thus it causes that a single earthliness, by drying and cooling, condenses things bound together, and separates things more separate. Add to this that you see pure, or almost pure earth of all colors in gems, gold, and glass, which would never be born from that sluggish and entirely filthy element, unless by a certain particular providence presiding, which prescribes to nature more sagaciously than any separate intellect.

THAT FROM THE NATURE OF THE ELEMENTS

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As there is one God in Himself encompassing and sustaining all things through His infinity, and He is immobile: so in the base of sensible things is the earth itself, entirely immobile by itself, making the end of its motion in its own center, sustaining and firming all its material resistances from below, and as if re-embracing from below. As it is necessary for God to stand entirely immobile, in order to give all...