Panthenosia: The Composition of All Dissensions

creatures motion: so it is necessary for the earth to stand entirely, and not be moved externally, so that the point of resistance in the motion of all corporeal things may be fixed in it. Thus, as fire and air are nourished, and water, along with air, attracts and dilates, all things rise above the earth, by the medium of the most hot and moist. The water following the earth did not make one globe with it from any other source, ordered for the salvation of the final living beings, than because from created and uncreated wisdom one globe was made in heaven, if it is permitted to compare such small things to great ones. And just as the earth, although it sustains all germinating and born things, nevertheless permits all things born from it to arise in the moist and hot: so God Almighty, the cause of the world's subsistence, permits entirely that in the moist of the holy spirit of Jesus (I do not speak of the person of the Trinity) and in His holy and eternal testament, that is, sacrament, the final and living rational creature may arise in itself. Hence it is said,

If anyone does not receive the spirit of Christ, he is not His: and, Unless you eat by sacramental and latent act the flesh of the son of man, and drink His blood, you shall not have life in you.

Through the humidity of the spirit, the first parent could have lived, until he had reached the time of his transformation through the only possible sacrament: but since that spirit was idle in the whole of nature due to the stain of sin, in such a way that it could not yet propel death from the body in a poorly disposed state, therefore no one has yet risen from the earth by himself, because that hot and moist were not united in a suitable vessel. If the spirit was present, the fire was not; if the latter, not the spirit; if both, the vessel was not suitable. The air, which is intermediate, consisting of hot and moist, and the medium for illuminating all things, represents that nature of the body, by whose virtue the eternal and invisible light appeared to us on account of the infirmity of our sight. Thus is the water of the spirit of Christ united to the immobile divinity, accustomed to be carried upward and downward, by whose virtue, united with the fire of the sacrament, all animals of inverted plants arise, which cannot live except in free air, by the power of the incarnation of the Word of God.

ON THE ABSOLUTE OFFICE OF CHRIST.

A finite angel could not be blessed except through this nature of the mediator. For the finite could not grasp the infinite, unless united to a mediator who is both finite and infinite. Therefore, after all things either created, or disposed for creation according to the capacity of their matter, the first of the final offices of the mediator was to bless the angelic nature, through whom the angels praise the divine majesty, otherwise they would be entirely incapable of their end and office. Therefore, angels desire to look into those things which pertain to the glory of His spirit, about which the entire scripture treats.