The Summary of Physics Restored

226The order of reason and Creation requires that the first exemplars of things were first engraved in heavenly Natures and then transmitted to lower ones. There they exist far more perfectly, both because of the greater fineness and excellence of matter and because their abodes are nearer to eternity. Among us they are much baser, being carved in coarser and cheaper matter and more remote from their eternal principle. Nothing has therefore been copied in this outermost margin of the World that was not first delineated in the heavenly expanse. Nor is there any species of lower nature that does not acknowledge the dominion of some corresponding higher nature and carry within it that nature’s hidden seal and signature. Thus lower things depend upon higher ones.