Third Distinction
Eighth Part
Questions about the Elementative Power1. Does the elementative cause the mixture of simple elements to give rise to good elemented substances? Solution: go to the definition of the Goodness of light in the first part of the second distinction.
2. Is the elementative as great a power in elementing elemented substance as the vegetative is in vegetating vegetated substance? Solution: go to the definition of the Greatness of light.
3. Does the elementative cause the duration of elemented things just like the vegetative causes the duration of vegetated things? Solution: go to the definition of the Duration of light.
4. When one elemented thing is corrupted, can its matter exist under the form of another elemented thing?
Solution: in the definition of the Power of light.
5. Given that a rose is elemented, does it have an elementing instinct?
Solution: in the definition of the Instinct of light.
6. Does the elementative have an appetite for mixing simple elements?
Solution: in the definition of the Appetite of light.
7. Does the elementative power have virtue?
Solution: in the definition of the Virtue of light.
8. Can one elementative element another elementative?
Solution: in the definition of the Truth of light.
9. Do the elements delight in elementing things just like the sensitive power delights in sensing things?
Solution: in the definition of the Glory of light.
10. Does the elementative power differentiate anything?
Solution: in the definition of the Difference of light.
11. Is the elementative power a compound?
Solution: in the definition of the Concordance of light.
12. Is the elementative comprised of contrary things?
Solution: in the definition of the Contrariety of light.
13. Is there one general elementative whose species are the elemental complexions?
Solution: in the definition of the substantial Principle of light.
14. Is the elementative a form that moves matter to element things?
Solution: in the definition of the formal Principle of light.
15. Does the elementative cause the quantity of elemented things?
Solution: in the definition of the quantitative Principle of light.
16. Does the elementative cause the distribution of elemental qualities?
Solution: in the definition of the qualitative Principle of light.
17. Does the elementative have relations?
Solution: in the definition of the quantitative Principle of light.
18. Does the elementative, as a form, influence any actions?
Solution: in the definition of the relative Principle of light.
19. Does the elementative, as matter, influence any passions?
Solution: in the definition of the passive Principle of light.
20. Is the elementative the source of the innate habits of elemented things?
Solution: in the definition of the habit of light.
21. Is the elementative the source of the innate situations of elemented things?
Solution: in the definition of the situation of light.
22. Does the elementative cause the motion of the elements through growth, decrease and alteration?
Solution: in the definition of the time producing Principle of light.
23. Does the elementative power cause beings to exist in a continuous line, within one another?
Solution: in the definition of the local principle of light.
24. Does the elementative power mediate between things and join them together?
Solution: in the definition of the Medium of light.
25. Is a flame a species of the elementative?
Solution: in the definition of the Medium of light.
26. Does the elementative repose in elementing things just as does the vegetative in vegetating things and the sensitive power in sensing things?
Solution: in the definition of the End of light.
27. Is the elementative a reproductive power?
Solution: in the definition of the Majority of light.
28. Does the elementative equalize and temper the elemental qualities and their subjects?
Solution: in the definition of the Equality of light.
29. Does the elementative accord with privation and corruption?
Solution: in the definition of the Minority of light.
30. Can one Elemented thing arise from another? Solution: go to the first paragraph of Rule B in the second part of the second distinction.
31. Does the elementative power generate anything? Solution: in the first paragraph of Rule B. Solution: in the second paragraph of Rule B.
32. Did all the forms of elemented things exist potentially in the elementative which exists as a universal form? Solution: in the third paragraph of Rule B.
33. Does the elementing entity initiate the generation of elemented beings within itself? Solution: in the fourth paragraph of Rule B.
34. Does the elementative transmute species? Solution: in the fifth paragraph of Rule B.
35. Is the elementative diffused like a cause in its effect? Solution: in the sixth paragraph of Rule B.
36. Does the elementative in a candle flame cause generation, corruption and privation as it brings the flame from potentiality into act?
Solution: in the seventh paragraph of Rule B.
37. Is the elementative both intensive and extended so it can produce bodies? Solution: go to the eighth paragraph of Rule B.
38. Does the elementative cause freaks of nature? Solution: in the ninth paragraph of Rule B.
39. What is the elementative in itself? Solution: go to the first paragraph of Rule C.
40. What does the elementative have in itself? Solution: in the second paragraph of Rule C.
41. What is the elementative in other things? Solution: in the third paragraph of Rule C.
42. What does the elementative have in other things? Solution: in the fourth paragraph of Rule C.
43. What does the elementative originate from? Solution: in the first paragraph of Rule D.
44. Again, what does the elementative originate from? Solution: in the second paragraph of Rule D.
45. To whom does the elementative belong? Solution: in the third paragraph of Rule B.
46. Why is there an elementative power? Solution: in the first paragraph of Rule E.
47. What is the elementative power for? Solution: in the second paragraph of Rule E.
48. What quantity does the elementative have? Solution: in Rule F.
49. What are the qualities of the elementative? Solution: in Rule G.
50. When does the elementative exist? Solution: in Rule H.
51. Where is the elementative? Solution: in Rule I.
52. How does the elementative exist? Solution: in Rule K.
53. What does the elementative exist with? Solution: in Rule K.