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Ars Brevis | | |
8. The elementative
11.9 Questions about the Eighth
Subject, or the Elementative
113. What is the elementative?
114. Does the elementative, like the
sensitive, have many species?
115. Does the elementative have its own
correlatives?
116. Does a candle flame lighting the wick
of a lamp element the wick within itself?
117. Does a candle flame light a wick with
air, like the sight senses a colored object
with light?
118. Is the elementative the cause of
length, breadth, depth and volume?
119. Is the elementative a species
common to the elements?
120. Can the elementative remain in a
subject from which the elements are
removed?
121. Is the elementative the source of
points, lines and shapes?
122. Does the elementative naturally impel
itself with its instinct, appetite, lightness,
heaviness and so forth like a man impels
himself artificially with his feet?
123. Can the elementative have nature
without substantial correlatives?
124. Are the elements actually present in
elemented things?
125. Does the elementative have
continuous quantity throughout the entire
space within the lunar sphere?
126. Are there two heats, two drynesses,
two whitenesses and so forth? Solution:
go to the subject of the elementative, and
draw the solutions from it, with an intellect
artificially conditioned by this Art.
127. Is there a fifth element? And the
answer is no, given that four complexions
suffice for elemented things.
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