That water contains the powers of the whole of nature.

This too can be proved both a priori and a posteriori. A priori: all particular natures were created by a particular word of God, by a special word and command which God uttered and spoke in creation—otherwise called, in theological language, the spoken word, verbum prophorikon. Water, however, was created by God’s universal Word—otherwise called, again in theological language, the subsistent Word, verbum hypostatikon. As for the proof a posteriori, this and other matters will be demonstrated more fully in the Second Part, to which the reader is referred. Meanwhile we should also mention here what the philosophers write elsewhere, namely: