portions was all
exhausted by him. This entire compound he divided lengthways into two
parts, which he joined to one another at the centre like the letter X,
and bent them into a circular form, connecting them with themselves and
each other at the point opposite to their original meeting-point; and,
comprehending them in a uniform revolution upon the same axis, he made
the one the outer and the other the inner circle. Now the motion of the
outer circle he called the motion of the same, and the motion of the
inner circle the motion of the other or diverse. The motion of the same
he carried round by the side (i.e. of the rectangular figure supposed to
be inscribed in the circle of the Same) to the right, and the motion of
the diverse diagonally (i.e. across the rectangular figure from corner
to corner) to the left. And he gave dominion to the motion of the same
and like, for that he left single and undivided; but the inner motion
he divided in six places and made seven unequal circles having their
intervals in ratios of two and three, three of each, and bade the orbits
proceed in a direction opposite to one another; and three (Sun, Mercury,
Venus) he made to move with equal swiftness, and the remaining four
(Moon, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter) to move with unequal swiftness to the
three and to one another, but in due proportion.

Now when the Creator had framed the soul according to his will, he
formed within her the corporeal universe, and brought the two together,
and united them centre to centre. The soul, interfused everywhere from
the centre to the circumference of heaven, of which also she is the
external envelopment, herself turning in herself, began a divine
beginning of never-ceasing and rational life enduring throughout all
time. The body of heaven is visible, but the soul is invisible,
and partakes of reason and harmony, and being made by the best of
intellectual and everlasting natures, is the best of things created. And
because she is composed of the same and of the other and of the essence,
these three, and is divided and united in due proportion, and in her
revolutions returns upon herself, the soul, when touching anything which
has essence, whether dispersed in parts or undivided, is stirred through
all her powers, to declare the sameness or difference of that thing and
some other; and to what individuals are related, and by what affected,
and in what way and how and when, both in the world of generation and
in