1. That which is moved is moved according to the operation of the motion
that doth move the all.

For that the Nature of the all supplies the all with motion,—one [motion
being] the [one] according to its 1 <#fn_214> Power, the other that
according to [its] Operation. 2 <#fn_215>

The former doth extend itself throughout the whole of Cosmos, and
holdeth it together from within; the latter doth extend itself [around
it], and encompasseth it from without. And these go everywhere together
through all things.

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Now the [Productive] Nature 1 <#fn_216> of all things supplies the
things produced with [power of re-] production, sowing the seeds of its
own self, [and] having its becomings 2 <#fn_217> by means of moving matter.

2. And Matter being moved was heated and did turn to Fire and Water,—the
one [being] strong and active, and the other passive.

And Fire opposed by Water was dried up by it, and did become Earth borne
on Water.

And when it 3 <#fn_218> was excessively dried up, 4 <#fn_219> a vapour
rose from out the three,—from Water, Earth and Fire,—and became Air.

The [Four] came into congress, [then,] according to the reason of the
Harmony, 5 <#fn_220>—hot with cold, [and] dry with moist.

And from the union 6 <#fn_221> of these [four] is spirit born, and seed
proportionate to the surrounding Spirit.

This [spirit] falling in the womb does not remain inactive in the seed,
but being active it transforms the seed, and [this] being [thus]
transformed, develops growth and size.

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And as it grows in size, it draws unto itself a copy of a model, 1
<#fn_222> and is modelled.

3. And on the model is the form supported,—by means of which that which
is represented by an image is so represented.

Now, since the spirit in the womb had not the motion that maintaineth
life, but that which causeth fermentation 2 <#fn_223> [only], the
Harmony composed the latter as the receptacle 3 <#fn_224> of rational
life. 4 <#fn_225>

This [life] is indivisible and changeless; it never changes from its
changelessness.

It 5 <#fn_226> ruleth the conception of the thing within the womb, by
means of numbers, delivereth it, and bringeth it into the outer air.

The Soul 6 <#fn_227> dwells very near to it 7 <#fn_228>;—not owing to
some common property, but under the constraint of Fate; for that it has
no love to be with body. 8 <#fn_229>

Wherefore, [the Harmony 9 <#fn_230>] according unto Fate doth furnish to
the thing that’s born [its] 10 <#fn_231>

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rational motion, and the intellectual essence of the life itself.

For that [this 1 <#fn_232>] doth insinuate itself into the spirit, and
set it moving with the motion of the life. 2 <#fn_233>