Aula Lucis, or The House of Light

...I have told you already, and for your
better instruction I shall tell you more:
it is a water made by nature, not ex-
tracted by the hands of man, nor is it
mere water, but a spermatic original: "spermatic"—meaning containing the seeds or life-giving principles of all things. viscous
composition of water, earth, air, and
fire. All these four nature unites in
one crystalline coagulable capable of being thickened or solidified. mass, in
the form or appearance of water, and
therefore I told you it was a water
made by nature. But if you ask me
how nature may be said to make any
such water, I shall instruct you by an
example that is obvious. Earth and
water are the only materials where-
upon nature works, for these two be-
ing passive, are surrounded by the
active superior bodies, namely
with the air, heaven, sun, and stars.
Thus do they stand in the very fire,
at least under the beams and emis-
sions original: "ejaculations"—referring to the throwing out or radiating of light and heat. thereof, so that the earth is sub-
ject to a continual torrefaction the process of drying or parching by heat., and
the water to a continual coction a slow boiling or digestive heat used in nature to ripen or transform substances..
Hence it comes to pass, that we are
perpetually overcast with clouds, and