The Summary of Physics Restored

175The supreme Creator’s decree provides that a nobler nature should not degenerate into a baser one, nor a more excellent into a worse, as though renouncing its birthright and lineage to pass into the servile condition of a slave. Higher things do indeed unite with lower, and more powerful things communicate themselves to weaker ones, so as to inform and perfect them through spirits sent out from themselves. These spirits thereby lose nothing of their kind or birth. Nor, when they enter the seeds of things or even mixed bodies, do they submit to a servile yoke. Instead they acquire a new dignity and right of rule. Every mixed body, of whatever kind, is an empire—indeed, an entire World—over which its spiritual form is set. The form’s office is to rule Nature’s organs and faculties and, in a word, its whole World. Thus what previously floated undifferentiated and without occupation in the vast sea of universal Nature is now called and dispatched to rule.