The Summary of Physics Restored

244This doctrine of many globes or Worlds does not conflict with Holy Scripture, which presents to us only the genesis of this World of ours. It recounts almost everything about that genesis in mystical rather than plain language, merely touching upon the other natures of the Universe, so that the weak minds of human beings, long fallen through the fault of curiosity and the desire for knowledge, might be permitted to wonder more than to know. This clouding of truth and this darkness of the human mind were part of the punishment for sin. Because of it, humanity fell from the pleasure of Paradise, the delights of the sciences and the knowledge of Nature and heavenly things. Having raised itself towards a wrongful desire for forbidden knowledge, it was to be humbled through the just deprivation even of permitted knowledge. Thus, with multiplicity and confusion introduced into the sciences, it was punished by the loss of true knowledge, which had been a single knowledge of all things. This is that Cherub appointed to guard Paradise, threatening with a fiery sword, blinding the guilty minds of human beings by the brilliance of his light and keeping them from Nature’s secrets and the truth of the Universe.