The Summary of Physics Restored

239Just as this weak province of the Universe is subject to the rule of the middle one, so the middle, ethereal province has received its authority and delegated office from the highest, superheavenly one. For the Empyrean Heaven and the choir of intelligible beings breathe into the heavenly order powers received successively from the Archetype. They move the natures immediately beneath them, as the first instruments of the material World, in harmony. Through this movement the lower things are also stirred and perform their alternations like dances in measured time, borrowing whatever excellence they possess from the higher things.