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has more material happen to pull the plant towards it,
go if the earth has more material than the air it will pull the
plant down and if the air has more materials than the
earth, then it will pull the plant up and give it more height
or width. The proof of this is that we see some plants that
have longer stems than branches and some have longer
branches than stems, some we see have dried stems but
green branches and some plants have dried branches but
green stems. Also the birds, if the bird's food is on the
ground, then it flies less up to the air and if its food was in
the air then it will fly higher and higher. The Human being
on the other hand if his food was delicate simple food he
would be closer and get spiritual things more and if his
food has more volume and thicker, then he would be
closer to earthy things and farther away from spiritual
things. Evil comes through criminal things and the good
comes through the spiritual things.
Let us get back to what we were saying about that the
essences are divided into two parts, the first part is
spiritual and the second is physical. The first spiritual
essence is primordial which is the divine world, the first
image and the first spiritual element and it contains the
mind, the soul, the nature, the element all the principles,
all the first species that had no other kind, the first
numbers that do not divide like the one, the dot and
similar shapes that do not divide, because the "now" is the
principle of time and the "dot" is the beginning of the line.
The physical essence is what assembles of elements like
fire, air, water, earth, animal, plant and object. The essence
»s also divided into simple and assembled aspects. The
simple is what is above the orbit and cannot be
acknowledged with worldly senses. As for the assembled
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