Third Distinction
Third Part - Questions about Heaven

1. Question: Is the goodness of heaven a cause for it to do good? Solution: go to the definition of Goodness in the first part of the first distinction.
2. Question: Is the greatness of heaven a reason for it to produce great motion? Solution: go to the definition of greatness in the first part of the second distinction.
3. Question: Does the motion of heaven last on its own? Solution: go to the definition of Duration in the first part of the second distinction.
4. Question: Can heaven move itself and the planets with its own power? Solution: go to the definition of Power in the first part of the second distinction.
5. Question: Does heaven have a natural instinct for moving things here below? Solution: go to the definition of Wisdom in the first part of the second distinction.
6. Question: Does heaven have a natural appetite for moving things here below? Solution: go to the definition of Will in the first part of the second distinction.
7. Question: Does heaven's motion move under the influence of its own virtue? Solution: go to the definition of Virtue in the first part of the second distinction.
8. Question: Is there any essential truth in the essence of heaven? Solution: go to the definition of Truth in the first part of the second distinction.
9. Question: Is delight an innate part of heaven? Solution: go to the definition of Glory in the first part of the second distinction.
10. Question: Is there some essential difference in the essence of heaven with which it differentiates things below? Solution: go to the definition of Difference in the first part of the second distinction.
11. Question: Does the concordance in dryness between Aries and Saturn belong to their essence? Solution: go to the definition of Concordance in the first part of the second distinction.
12. Question: Does the contrariety of heat and cold between Aries and Saturn belong to their essence? Solution: go to the definition of Contrariety in the first part of the second distinction.
13. Question: Are heat and cold in the elements caused by the contrariety between Saturn and Jupiter? Solution: go to the definition of Beginning in the first part of the second distinction.
14. Question: Are sunlight and moonlight essentially joined together? Solution: go to the definition of Middle in the first part of the second distinction.
15. Question: Are the planetary spheres joined together and is their motion continuous? Solution: go to the definition of Middle in the first part of the second distinction.
16. Question: Do Mars and the Sun repose in each other through motion? Solution: go to the definition of End in the first part of the second distinction.
17. Question: Does the power of combustion make candlelight into an image of divine Goodness, Greatness etc. greater than sunlight? Solution: go to the definition of Majority in the first part of the second distinction.
18. Question: Why are equal things more compatible than unequal ones for a native of Leo, Mars and the Sun? Solution: go to the definition of Equality in the first part of the second distinction.
19. Question: In heaven, is there anything potential that does not come into act? Solution: go to the definition of Minority in the first part of the second distinction.
20. Question: Does the Sun generate the light of Venus, then Venus the light of Mercury, then Mercury the light of the Moon and Moon the light of Fire? Solution: Go to the first paragraph on Rule B in the second distinction.
21. Question: Could it be that heaven generates Saturn and Saturn generates Jupiter? Solution: Go to the second paragraph on Rule B in the second distinction.
22. Question: Does moonlight potentially exist in sunlight? Solution: Go to the third paragraph on Rule B in the second distinction.
23. Question: Does the Sun illuminate moonlight from its essence? Solution: Go to the fourth paragraph on Rule B in the second distinction.
24. Question: Does the Sun transmute the transparency of air into sunlight? Solution: Go to the fifth paragraph on Rule B in the second distinction.
25. Question:  Are sunlight and firelight joined together in daylight? Solution: Go to the sixth paragraph on Rule B in the second distinction.
26. Question: Does sunlight shining on the Moon produce moonlight? Solution: Go to the seventh paragraph on Rule B in the second distinction.
27. Question: Do the lucificative, lucificable and their lucificating exist in act in sunlight? Solution: Go to the eighth paragraph on Rule B in the second distinction.
28. Question: Does sunlight illuminate the Moon through contingency or by necessity? And do heavenly bodies cause contingencies in bodies here below? Solution: Go to the ninth paragraph on Rule B in the second distinction.
29. Question: What is the motion of heaven? Solution: The motion of heaven is the universal cause of all natural physical motion, and this is signified by Rule C in the second part of the second distinction.
30. Question: What are the natural coessential moving parts of heaven? Solution: Go to the second paragraph on Rule C in the second part of the second distinction.
31. Question: What is the motion of heaven in that of Saturn and so on in a straight line, in the mode of generation, to the motion of a rose? Solution: Go to the third paragraph on Rule C in the second part of the second distinction.
32. Question: Does heaven's motion actively participate in the motion of snow? Solution: Go to the fourth paragraph on Rule C in the second part of the second distinction.
33. Question: What does heaven's motion consist of? Solution: Go to the first paragraph on Rule D in the second part of the second distinction.
34. Question: What does the light of lightning consist of? Solution: Go to the second paragraph on Rule D in the second part of the second distinction.
35. Question: What does the motion of rain belong to? Solution: Go to the third paragraph on Rule D in the second part of the second distinction.
36. Question: Why is there heaven? Solution: Go to Rule E in the second part of the second distinction.
37. Question: What is the motion of heaven for? Solution: Go to Rule E in the second part of the second distinction.
38. Question: Supposing that there were no prime universal physical form, could there be a continuous diametrical line from Cancer to Capricorn? Solution: Go to Rule F in the second part of the second distinction.
39. Question: Does heaven have its own motion for moving itself? Solution: Go to Rule G in the second part of the second distinction.
40. Question: Do plants have their own motion, or is it appropriated? Solution: Go to Rule G in the second part of the second distinction.
41. Question: Does the Sun's active virtue in things here below come from the virtue of heaven? Solution: Go to Rule G in the second part of the second distinction.
42. Question: Is heaven good on account of its own natural Goodness, and great on account of its own natural Greatness etc.? Solution: Go to Rule G in the second part of the second distinction.
43. Question: Does the Sun alone cause the natural daily cycle? Solution: Go to Rule H in the second part of the second distinction.
44. Question: Is heaven's motion successive from Saturn's standpoint, but continuous in itself? Solution: Go to Rule H in the second part of the second distinction.
45. Question: Do time and motion exist continuously? Solution: Go to Rule H in the second part of the second distinction.
46. Question: Can there be motion without time? Solution: Go to Rule H in the second part of the second distinction.
47. Question: Does motion belong to time past? Solution: Go to Rule H in the second part of the second distinction.
48. Where is heaven? Solution: Go to Rule I in the second part of the second distinction.
49. Question: Is heaven contained by something? Solution: Go to Rule I in the second part of the second distinction.
50. Question: Does heaven have its own appetite to go somewhere on its own? Solution: Go to Rule I in the second part of the second distinction.
51. Question: Does the motion of heaven exist in a rose? Solution: Go to Rule I in the second part of the second distinction.
52. Question: Does the motion of heaven exist in a stone while it rises and falls? Solution: Go to Rule I in the second part of the second distinction.
53. Question: How does heaven move? Solution: Go to Rule K in the second part of the second distinction.
54. Question: How does the motion of heaven arouse heat in fire or in summer? Solution: Go to Rule K in the second part of the second distinction.
55. Question: How does the natural motion of things last here below? Solution: Go to Rule K in the second part of the second distinction.
56. Question: How is the motion of heaven circular? Solution: Go to Rule K in the second part of the second distinction.
57. Question: How is the motion of heaven continuous? Solution: Go to Rule K in the second part of the second distinction.
58. Question: What does the motion of the planetary virtues exist with? Solution: Go to Rule K in the second part of the second distinction.
59. Question: Are the planets moved by contrary innate virtues? Solution: Go to Rule K in the second part of the second distinction.
60. Question: With what does the Sun cause heat and the Moon cause cold? Solution: Go to Rule K in the second part of the second distinction.
61. Question: With what do Aries and Pisces agree and disagree? Solution: Go to Rule K in the second part of the second distinction.
62. Question: With what do the heavenly bodies cause bodies here below? Solution: Go to Rule K in the second part of the second distinction.

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