On the Universe

OF THE UNIVERSE.

or another province, but in the universe: so that they are inexcusable in the whole world who have not glorified Him as God. But since those things which were born first and are supposed to be in the first and more noble parts of the Zodiac are to be placed in the first rank of Divine favor, it is necessary that the first care of God be shown to have been for those peoples who are first in order and celestial aspect. Thus we will seem to teach not only through the cause, but on account of the cause.

On the origin of heaven and its influx, and its parts.

The world having been founded in His Ideas before all things, and impressed upon the agent and possible intellect, so that, with the order of the condition depending on God preserved, the world is contemporary with God in created wisdom, the mass of the world gradually rose from the prima materia first matter