Lumen de Lumine

Hereupon Thalia told me, it was the first Matter, and the very Naturall, true Sperm of the great World. It is (said she) invisible, and therefore few are they that find it; but many believe it is not to be found. They believe indeed that the world is a dead Figure, like a Body which hath been sometimes made, and fashion'd by that spirit, which dwelt in it, but retaines that very shape and fashion, for some short time, after that the Spirit hath forsaken it. They should rather consider, that every Frame when the Soule hath left it, doth discompose, and can no longer retaine its former figure, for the Agent that held and kept the parts together is gone. Most excellent then is that speech which I heard sometimes from one of my own Pupils.