"How quickly hast thou learned, by the very light of reason; for said I not this, that all things are one, and one all things? that all things were in the Creator, before he created all things; neither unworthily is he said to be All, whole parts are all things; therefore in this whole Discourse have a care to remember him, who being One, is All, even the very Creator of all things; all things descend from Heaven into Earth, into the Water, and into the Air."

“Separate thou the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross sweetly with great industry.”

“The Sun is its father, the Moon its mother, the wind has carried it in its belly, the earth is its nurse.”

“And as all things have been and arose from one by the mediation of one, so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation.”

“That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing.”

“Now be thou present with me, as much as thou art able I both in mind, and wisdom: for the reason of the Divinity which is to be known by the divine intention of the undemanding, is most like unto a Torrent running with a violent and swift stream from a high Rock, whereby it glides away from the understanding of such, who are either Hearers or Dealers in it.”

“So the various equality of every shape being differenced, that the species of the qualities, by distance may be known to be infinite, yet so united to this, that the whole may seem one, and from that one, all to have their being; wherefore the whole World are the four Elements of which it is compounded, Fire, Water, Earth, Air; one World, one Soul, one God.”