On the Magnetic Cure of Wounds

natures from one another, and from this common kinship common love is born, and from common love, common attraction. Hence the magnet draws iron to itself, and the Sun draws many flowers to itself; hence the Heliotrope plants turn to the motion of the Sun, and the Selinetrope and Moon-follower original: "Selinetropię & Luniſequæ" to the motion of the Moon.

For which reason, while one may indeed behold the Sun, the Moon, and the rest upon the earth, it is according to the earthly quality; but in the heavens, one must behold stones, plants, and animals, but according to their heavenly nature and mode, so that in the lowest things the highest are to be recognized and sought. For God has ordained by fatal law that lower things should serve the higher, and has imbued each one with its own form, accumulated with powers by the celestial descent. And so that the continuous procreation of things might not cease, He commanded each to bring forth seed,