[Divers traitez de la philosophie naturelle]

all over, and beware of strong fire, for they would have no movement toward one another: take care that it be slow fire, for if you make fire more than is appropriate, it will be red before its time: for first we want black, and then white, and then red; for nature works only by degrees and alterations. I have told you a sufficient art if you are reasonable: for you do not need to work with many things except one, which is altered from degree to degree until perfection.

7 Pythagoras says,
Let us say other things, which are not other things, but the names are other. And know that the thing that we understand, of which the