The senses and the imagination form the elemental figure shown in the initial pages as a depiction of the first elemental figure with ten cameras displaying the names of the elements. A circle surrounding this displays the terms for sixteen essences and properties of the elements. These are also shown in the second figure with its five circles, the two inner circles both display all four elements, each of the three outer circles contains all sixteen terms referring to the essences and properties of the elements:

B. Essential fire      F. Being      K. Composition O. Operation
C. Essential air      G. Form       L. Substance     P. Inner
D. Essential water H. Matter     M. Accident      Q. Outer
E. Essential earth   I. Simplicity  N. Virtue           R. Motion

The alphabet allows the principles of the elements to enter the Common figure and S. is similar to the elements insofar as S. is described with sixteen terms denoting spiritual essences in the same way the elements are described with sixteteen terms denoting corporeal essences. Like the other figures, this figure should be made of revolving circles so that all its cameras can be formed.

While the senses and imagination mix with the intellect in this way, the imagination and intellect leave the senses and ascend, as the imagination imagines and the intellect understands the universal figure of the elements, namely four things, properties or essences which are essential fire, essential air, essential water and essential earth. The being of each essence has an active and passive nature, as all four simultaneously constitute a single chaotic body endowed with universal form and matter. In this body, other elemented bodies exist like fish in water or birds in the air.

From this common body in which universal mixture and digestion proceed, and which fills all the space beneath the lunar sphere, issues the influence of four potentials, namely the four elements as they retain the essence of their common body which consists of the said four thingngs, properties or essences. And these four potentials or four elements produce substantial beings in species that really exist in the universality of nature which contains all natural forms.

So the imagination and intellect discourse through the sense data and make a universal description of the Elemental figure with the sixteen above principles. And the imagination partly fails to imagine all this but the intellect rises above it by understanding the four elements as having form and matter that is not perceptible to the senses since it understands that fire both gives and receives within substance as do the other elements, and that by doing this it produces an offspring, namely compound fire with a visible shape that can be sensed. But the part that cannot be received by the offspring from elemental homogeneity remains outside as simple fire, and the same applies to the other elements.

As it reaches this understanding, the intellect forms a universal intellectual concept of the Elemental figure as said above, and from this it descends to particulars inasmuch as the universal concept is composed of particulars, since the said common body is constituted and composed of the four essences as ingredients. And the four elements exist as potentials or acts of the common body, as they exercise their acts in the substantial beings they produce from themselves through generation and corruption. Thus the four compound elements are acts of the four simple elements.

When this figure is disposed in the intellect as stated above, the intellect investigates and makes judgments with its statements and those of the Elemental figure, as it maintains in itself and in the imagination and the senses a universal figure with its constituting particulars which all contradict any particular that is contrary to the disposition that this figure is subject to in a universal and particular way in the senses, imagination and intellect.

As said above, the intellect perceives the shape and propositions of the Elemental figure through the senses and imagination. And not only can it gain knowledge of natural operations  and give a knowledgeable response regarding any particular found in the universality of nature and solve questions and disputes about natural things; but in addition, this figure is used jointly with the other figures to discover metaphors by comparing elemental nature with the other figures to solve questions or adduce arguments with this Art, in which the Elemental figure is most useful.