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similar to the total effects of each ingredient. The same thing can
be said about baked goods, theriaca 33 , meals of individual
pieces such as fruits and compounds such as sweets.
You may also know that an individual planet may have
different functions like fire. Fire can be used to heat honey. If it
is used adequately, it gives honey a delicious taste; however, if
the heat increases, honey will boil over and burn, and it
becomes distasteful and bitter. Similar to this is the function of
planets depending on whether they are in a bright or in a dark
degree.
Planets have two types of functions: subjective motion and
accidental heat which follows their motion. Heat is the essence
of motion and motion is the essence of the function of planets.
This statement particularly applies to the sensory faculties.
What applies to the mental faculty is that motion is the ethereal
essence of fixed planets. This essence comes to fixed planets
through longing for virtue and the general good. Thus, by
necessity, heat follows motion and motion follows the first
perfection which cannot be surpassed by any other perfection at
all. Analogous to the above are the collective orbits of the
celestial bodies, their individual orbits and the total heat
emanating from them. The effects of the celestial body orbits
influence the effects of planets, not the other way around. The
function of planets is stagnant and motionless; however, planets
produce magnificent effects and wonderful contributions which
do not exist in celestial orbits at all. Ether is the first true acting
nature, and the contribution of planets is but its dye and
garment like dyes and garments we use although the former are
prettier and better. The celestial orbital degrees are not real at
all; this term is being used for convenience and calculation
purposes, because there are no parts of the celestial orbits which
are active and others which are acted upon. In motion and
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