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 8. The Elementative
8. The Eighth Subject, or the Elementative
The principles and rules are in the elementative in a specific way, and with these it has many species,
like gold, silver and so on. Here is it definition: the
elementative is a power whose proper function is to element things. Just as the sensitive, it has common
correlatives, and particular ones as well, namely those of
fire, air, water and earth. They all have their own correlatives, without which the elements cannot
exist, just as the correlatives cannot be without the elements which
are the ultimate foundation of the elementative. And due to them, the elementative has points, lines
and shapes, length, breadth and height, volume, qualities and
complexions, hardness, roughness, lightness, weight etc. And here the intellect realizes that the elements
are actually present in elemented things, but in a remote
way. Or else, elemented things would have nothing to subsist on, nor would they belong to the genus
of substance, nor would they have any form, matter, motion,
instinct, length, breadth, fullness, or any appetite, which is quite impossible and absurd to maintain.
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