The Summary of Physics Restored

241Those who think that the almost innumerable multitude of heavenly bodies was created for the benefit of the earthly globe and its inhabitants as their ultimate purpose are mistaken. Natural reason forbids the enslavement of far nobler and more majestic natures to baser and worse ones. Is it not more probable that each globe constitutes a distinct World, and that so many worlds, like fiefs of the divine and eternal empire, are spread and suspended throughout the vast space of Ether, bound to one another by that medium as a common bond, and that the immensity of the whole Universe consists of these manifold natures? Although they are very distant from one another in nature and place, they agree through mutual love so as to produce a perfect harmony in the Universe. Heaven is the common field of all of them, though much purer around the more perfect bodies. An exceedingly fine, breath-like and in some measure spiritual body therefore lies between them and fills the intervening spaces. It readily receives the varied dispositions of so many natures and the hidden powers continually flowing from them, and communicates what it receives with the greatest speed to others, however distant. For Heaven is Nature’s vehicle, through whose mediation all the cities of the Universe conduct commerce with one another and share in each other’s faculties. Thus they are bound together by the strongest bond of love and kinship, as though by a kind of magnetic power.