Part 2


FIGURE 9
Questions about the Elements part 2

Having dealt with the questions about the first part of the elemental figure, in this second part let us deal with the questions that result from combining the elements.

Fire, Fire
Question 1: Is there any essential difference between simple and compound fire?
Question 2: Is simple fire a body?
Solution: [Fire, fire.][Air, air.][Difference, end, majority.][Being, simplicity, composition.]

Fire, Air
Question 1: Does fire give of its essence and virtue to air?
Question 2: Can air be diversified by simple fire, or by compound fire?
Solution: [Fire, air.][Air, Water.][Operation, concordance, beginning.][Igneity, aereity, motion.]

Fire, Water
Question 1: Can fire actively cool and be passively cooled?
Question 2: Can water be heated essentially, or virtually?
Solution: [Fire, water.][Air, earth.][Contrariety, beginning, end.][Igneity, form, matter.]

Fire, Earth
Question 1: Does fire actively dry per se or by accident, since it can be passively dried?
Question 2: Does the essential part of fire that can be passively dried convert into a formally drying power when fire dries air?
Solution: [Fire, earth.][Earth, water.][Difference, concordance, contrariety.][Form, matter, interior.]

Air, Air
Question 1: Does simple air essentially and virtually produce its likeness?
Question 2: Does air enter into mixture, digestion and composition with its essential or integral parts?
Solution: [Air, air.][Water, water.][Concordance, end, majority.][Aereity, being, composition.]

Air, Water
Question 1: Does air heat the matter and form of water?
Question 2: Since water can be heated, does it heat earth?
Solution: [Air, water.][Water, earth.][Beginning, middle, end.][Aereity, aqueity, being.]

Air, Earth
Question 1: Can air actively moisten and be passively moistened in earth?
Question 2: How do the parts of the elements enter one another?
Solution: [Air, earth.][Earth, fire.][Difference, contrariety, majority.]

Water, Water
Question 1: Is water a power that actively restrains and is passively restrained to prevent fire from entering it?
Question 2: Is fire in water an extended power per se or by accident?
Solution: [Water, water.][Fire, fire.][Beginning, middle, end.][Simplicity, composition, virtue.]

Water, Earth
Question 1: Is water a filling power per se or by accident on account of air?
Question 2: Is earth a power that evacuates and that can be evacuated?
Solution: [Water, earth.][Earth, fire.][Difference, concordance, contrariety.][Aqueity, being, motion.]

Earth, Earth
Question 1: Could the weight of earth be sustained if earth per se could not evacuate or be evacuated?
Question 2: Is there the same quantity of earth as of the other elements?
Solution: [Earth, earth.][Water, water.][Operation, end, equality.][Terreity, being, virtue.]
 
 



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