The Summary of Physics Restored

209It belongs properly to spiritual nature to act, and to bodily nature to undergo action. Where the two meet, as in mixed bodies, the former, being nobler, acts and rules, while the latter obeys by undergoing action. For the power to act is the badge of dominion, and the burden of undergoing action the mark of servitude. Thus the fire implanted in the seed is the principle of generation and life, Nature’s Archeus and steward in preparing and shaping matter and in mixing and distributing the elements. Thus form exercises its powers with authority within the mixed body as the source of all its actions. Thus the powers of heavenly things dispose and seal the lower elements and bodily matter.