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3. Heaven
11.3 Questions about the Third
Subject, or Heaven
73. Does heaven move on its own? We
answer that it does, so its principles can
have their own substantial correlatives in
all its constellations.
74. Does heaven move locally? We
answer that it does, as it moves in a
circular way within itself and within things
below, but it does not move outside itself.
This is because it does not and cannot
have any action outside itself.
75. Does an angel move heaven? The
answer is no, because if it did, its active
correlatives would be inferior to its passive
correlatives, and thus it would not move
the elements and elemented things with
its form, but with its matter, which is
impossible.
76. Question: does heaven have a motive
soul? The answer is yes, or else the
sensitive and vegetative would not have
any motive soul, nor would the elements
be in motion.
77. With the first species of rule E we
ask: why does heaven exist? And we say
that it is because it is made of its own
form and matter.
78. With the second species of rule E we
ask: what is heaven for? And we answer
that it is in order to enable motion in
things below. And this is enough about
heaven, for brevity's sake.
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