The Summary of Physics Restored

93The second universal Agent is that same light, yet not flowing immediately from its source, but reflected from dense bodies illuminated by it, such as the heavenly bodies and indeed the Earth itself. For Solar light, striking those bodies, moves their dispositions and faculties and is altered by contact with them. Through the reflection of its rays it diffuses their differing powers throughout the whole expanse of Heaven and our Air. Carried in those rays as in vehicles, the varied conditions of so many bodies are scattered everywhere for the preservation and harmony of universal Nature; we have called these influences. These are Nature’s true and first Elements. Since they are spiritual, they communicate themselves to us under an airy or even a watery nature. To their beneficence, as to the roots of the Elements, every offspring and gift of life is owed.