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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