Lumen de Lumine

Thou doest know by very naturall Experience, that out of one Specificall Root there grow severall different Substances, as Leaves, Flowers, Fruit, and Seed; So out of one Universall Root, namely the Chaos, grow all Specificall Natures, and their Individualls. Now there is no true Science or Knowledge, but what is grounded upon Sensible, particular Substances, or upon that Sensible Universall Substance out of which all Particulars are made. As for Universals in the Abstract, there are no such things, they are empty imaginarie Whymzies, for Abstractions are but so many Phantastic Suppositions. Consider now Eugenius, that all Individualls, even Man himself, hath nothing in him Materially, but what he received from the materiall Universall Nature. Consider again, that the same Individualls are Reducible to their first Physicall Universall Matter, and by Consequence this Universall matter hath in it self the Secrets and Mysteries of all Particulars; for whatsoever includes the Subject it self, includes also the Science of that subject. To conclude; In the first Matter, the Divine Wisdome is collected in a Generall Chaoticall Center, but in the particulars made of the first Matter it is dispersed, and spread out as it were to a Circumference. It remains then that the Chaos is the Center of all Sciences, to which they may, and ought to be reduc'd, for it is the sensible naturall Mysterium Magnum, and under God the Secondary Temple of Wisdome.