Candida Phoenix Philosophica

2As for the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary light, and your proposition that on the first day light inhered in the surface or some subtler part of the waters, on the second and third days in the air or entire heavenly expanse, and on the fourth, after the creation of the luminaries, was imparted to sun, moon, and stars: these are mere assumptions of the point to be proved, contrary to Nature’s reason and order. Where did God create anything extraordinarily? It is also utterly absurd that one and the same accident—supposing, without granting, that light is an accident—should inhere now in this body or subject, now in that, and then in another.