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

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

“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.”

“The Fire only, in that it is carried upward, is lively subservient to that which descends; for whatsoever descends from above is generating, and whatsoever ascends upward is nourishing; the earth alone abiding in it self is the receiver of all things, and the restorer of all things she receiveth.”