THERE IS CONTINUITY BETWEEN NATURE AND THE ELEMENTS.
14. The bodies begotten by nature are the elements. As to the animals and the plants, do they possess nature as the air possesses the light which when retiring does not injure the air, because it never mingled with the air, and remained separate from it? Or is nature’s relation to animals and plants the same as that of the fire with a heated body, to which, on retiring, it leaves a warmth which is different from the heat characteristic of the fire, and which constitutes a modification of the heated body? Surely this. To the essence which it moulds, nature gives a shape, which is different from the form proper to nature herself. We might however still consider whether there be any intermediary between nature and the essence which she moulds. However, we have sufficiently determined the difference that exists between nature and the wisdom which presides over the universe.
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 2) – THE SOUL DOES NOT EVEN REMEMBER HERSELF (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 20) – THE APPETITES ARE LOCATED NEITHER IN BODY NOR SOUL, BUT IN THEIR COMBINATION (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 21) – DESIRES ARE PHYSICAL, BECAUSE CHANGEABLE IN HARMONY WITH THE BODY (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 22) – RELATION OF DESIRE-FUNCTION TO THE VEGETATIVE POWERS (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 23) – CONCEPTIVE THOUGHT DEMANDS THE INTERMEDIARY PROCESS OF SENSATION (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 24) – ARE THE SENSES GIVEN US ONLY FOR THE SAKE OF UTILITY? (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 25) – IF SENSATION IS A SOUL-DISTRACTION, THE STARS WOULD NOT INDULGE THEREIN (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 26) – THE EARTH FEELS AND DIRECTS BY THE LAWS OF SYMPATHETIC HARMONY (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 27) – ANALYSIS OF THE EARTH’S PSYCHOLOGY (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 28) – DOES THE IRASCIBLE POWER ALSO ORIGINATE IN THE BODY? (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 29) – WHEN THE SOUL LEAVES THE BODY, SHE LEAVES A TRACE OF LIFE (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 3) – THE SOUL BECOMES WHAT SHE REMEMBERS (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 30-45) – A influência dos astros é devida à simpatia (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 30) – STARS, AS WELL AS THE SUN, HAVE PRAYERS ADDRESSED TO THEM (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 31) – NATURAL ACTIONS ARE BOTH ON WHOLES AND ON PARTS (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 32) – HAVING CONFUTED ASTROLOGY AND DEVILTRY, WORLD INFLUENCE IS ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORLD-SOUL (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 33) – THE STARS’ MOTIONS COMPARED TO A PREARRANGED DANCE (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 34) – THE INFLUENCE OF THE UNIVERSE SHOULD BE PARTIAL ONLY (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 35) – EARTHLY EVENTS SHOULD NOT BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE STARS’ BODY OR WILL (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 36) – NOTHING IN THE UNIVERSE IS ENTIRELY INANIMATE (Guthrie)