The Summary of Physics Restored

95Nature’s Author established the first bond of Love in natural things between first matter and universal form, heaven and earth, light and darkness, Poros and Penia—that is, abundance and want—and the beautiful and the deformed. The second degree of love flowed from that first coupling, as though from the embrace of parents, into the Elements. Bound to one another in a brotherly spirit, they divided Nature’s entire domain in the best order. The third and last degree is completed in compounds, which are carried towards the propagation and multiplication of their like by little fires of love implanted and engendered within them by Nature. Divine Love established this threefold bond of love in created things as a magical knot, so that he might extend himself, as though through propagating shoots, into every part of his workmanship, together and individually. For Love is the basis of the Universe, the cube of Nature, and the firmest bond between things above and below.