first creation of all things.

To the individuals themselves He has communicated, among innumerable properties, especially the property that they can propagate or multiply their own kind through the mentioned male and female. So much for the primal birth or first creation of all things.

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The Second Section

On the natural birth or daily production of things.

Natural birth, in the daily production of things, is ordained by God in two ways:
1. Without copulation. 2. Through copulation.

The first occurs through the power and effect of the seed of nature in the menstruo mundi solvent of the world. See back to page 16.

The other occurs through the power and effect of particular seeds when they enter their proper matrix womb or formative environment. The first type of propagation and multiplication of things is peculiar to minerals, according to which they are daily generated in the bowels of the earth. They