Without T., it is impossible to know anything about the nature and operations of the elements, therefore the propositions in this third part are reduced to T. in various ways, by referring to the principles of T. sometimes with the first part, sometimes with the second part in mind. And it is sufficient to provide an example of the second part, since this shows clearly enough the way to reduce the first part to the principles of T. And these propositions are distributed in groups of three among the fifteen angles of T., as was done above in the second part of Law, thus the third part contains forty-five propositions. Now let us begin with the propositions of the first and noblest of the principles.

God A.
1. On account of the magnitude that is in God, every element seeks out its likeness by seeking to be great.
2. As God exists incessantly within Himself, every element seeks to exist incessantly in itself.
3. Since God's willing and not willing are both productive and receptive of good, every element operates both actively and passively.

Creature B.
1. Every element is further removed from non being by its existence as a creature than by existing as an act.
2. No elemental act can proceed beyond the realm of created being.
3. As creatures, elements produce their likenesses in other creatures, and these likenesses are known as elemented beings.

Operation C.
1. Elemental operations proceed by inclining essential parts towards integral parts.
2. Since elemental virtue is mobile, no element can exist without operating.
3. Every element uses accidents to produce its substantial and virtual operations.

Difference D.
1. As being and essence are different, so are elemental essences different from elemental powers.
2. Essence and being are diversified in the diversification of form and matter.
3. Simple elements are never diversified from compound ones without without a diversification in species.

Concordance E.
1. Natural being is a concordance between essence and power.
2. Concordance mediates the agreement between form and figure.
3. The inner concordance between active and passive parts comes before their outer concordance.

Contrariety F.
1. Wherever there is less digestion, there is more contrariety.
2. Corruption through contrariety is swifter than generation through concordance.
3. Since contrariety occurs in composition, there is no privation of the simple elements.

Beginning G.
1. Substance arises from many essences and accidents arise from essence and substance.
2. Form and matter are principles of concordance and privation is a principle of contrariety.
3. Compound elements arise from simple elements.

Middle H.
1. Without knowing the beginning and end, it is improper to judge the middle.
2. Every natural medium is more inclined toward possibility than impossibility.
3. Every elemented thing mediates among the simple elements.

End I.
1. The final intent of nature inclines essence to being, being to powers, powers to likenesses, and from likenesses it reverts back to being.
2. Action without passion can never be deprived of final intent.
3. Since corporeity is the essence of body, the simple elements seek to be bodies.

Majority K.
1. Substance is the subject of majority and its accidents are the subject of minority.
2. As elements cannot increase themselves essentially, they increase themselves through accidental likenesses.
3. All natural majority first arises in the diversification of simple and compound elements.

Equality L.
1. A whole never exists equally in all its parts.
2. Equality cannot be found among the acts of elements.
3. If essential fire, essential air, essential water and essential earth did not equally produce universal being, the universal principles would be corruptible.

Minority M.
1. All accidents are minor subjects since they do not exist of themselves in natural things.
2. Because minority agrees with non being, every element hates to decrease itself.
3. Transmutation from minority to majority proceeds from shape to form.

Affirmation N.
1. Affirmation is the likeness of natural appetite and intention.
2. Every natural effect to which nature is disposed is to be affirmed.
3. Nature and affirmation are alike through possibility and entity.

Doubt O.
1. Doubt and natural confusion are somewhat similar.
2. Just like rational doubt arises from minor affirmation and negation, natural confusion arises from minor beginning and end.
3. Through contingency and doubt, there is a similarity between natural and rational acts.

P. Negation
1. In negation and corruption there is a metaphoric similarity between nature and reason. 
2. Greater contrariety than concordance between a whole and its parts must be denied.
3. Negation has an affinity with the secrets of nature.