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Sulphur · Water · Passage 7
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- Latin witness
- 1616 · sequence pages 11–12
Latin
Et haec operatio fit de die in diem, et sic etiam hic mundus de die in diem fortificatur, et incorruptus mansurus est naturaliter, excepta Altissimi conditoris absoluta voluntate, quia ille ignis centralis non cessabit motu universali, et influentia caelestium virtutum accendi, ac aquas calefacere, nec aquae cessabunt resolvi in aerem, nec aer cessabit comprimere residuum aquarum cum terra, ac ita in centro continere, ut non possint moveri ex suo centro, et sic naturaliter hic mundus a summa sapientia divina factus est et continetur, et sic ad exemplum huius omnia in mundo naturaliter fieri necesse est. Hanc creationem huius machinae mundi, voluimus tibi elucidare propterea, ut scias quod quatuor elementa habent sympathiam naturalem cum superioribus, quia ex uno chao eadem sunt: sed a superioribus gubernantur sicut a dignioribus, inde et in hunc locum sublunarem haec obedientia devenit. Sed scias ista omnia a Philosopho naturaliter inventa esse, ut suo loco declarabitur.
English
This operation takes place day after day, and the world is thereby strengthened daily. It will naturally remain uncorrupted except by the absolute will of the Most High Creator. Universal motion and the influence of heavenly powers will not cease to kindle that central fire and heat the waters; the waters will not cease to dissolve into air; nor will air cease to compress the remaining waters with earth and keep them at the centre, so that they cannot be moved from it. Thus this world is naturally made and maintained by the highest divine wisdom, and everything within it must naturally happen after its example. I have wished to explain this creation of the world's fabric so that you may know that the four elements have a natural sympathy with the higher things, because both come from one chaos. But the higher things govern them as the worthier, and from there this obedience descends into the sublunary region. Know that a philosopher discovered all these things naturally, as will be explained in its place.
Socrates
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The complete supplied Latin–English edition of the Twelve Treatises, Epilogue, Enigma, Parable, Dialogue of Mercury and Treatise of Sulphur, with original preliminaries, John French’s historical English address and its separately labelled modernisation, 101 annotations and the complete study apparatus.
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The Twelve Treatises and their concluding texts follow the selected 1606 Herzog August Bibliothek witness. The Dialogue uses the 1607 Cologne printing; the author’s preface and Alsted epigram use Frankfurt 1611. Sulphur uses the 1616 Munich and Rome witnesses. John French’s 1650 address is separately identified as historical English reception.
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