[Divers traitez de la philosophie naturelle]

know that if you do not take the natures, and you do not conjoin the consanguineous with the consanguineous, you do nothing; for the natures meet, and pursue one another, and rot, and beget; for nature is governed by nature, which breaks it, and leads it into powder, and makes it nothing, then renews it and begets it many times. Study and read so that you know the truth, and who rots it and renews it, and what things these are, and how they love one another, and how after their love, enmity and corruption come to them, and how they embrace together until they are made one. Then