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must therefore consist of the three primary bodies, but 

 occurring in diverse proportions. As light and heat can 

 never subsist without the substance of the aether, so also 

 can no body of light and no body of heat subsist per se 

 without the body of gravity or carbon, and vice versa. 

 The general materials of nature are therefore combinations 

 of the three primary bodies. 



273. The aether is the totality of the primary bodies 

 in equal proportion, where thus no pole is fixed, but all 

 are comprehended in fixation, i. e. in constant change. 



274. All other general matters must be also com- 

 binations of the three primary bodies, but with different 

 fixation, or in unequal proportion. There can conse- 

 quently be only four general matters. 



275. The first general matters are called Elements. 

 There are only four elements, one general and three par- 

 ticular. 



1. Element, Fire. 



2. Heat. 



3. Light 



4. - - - - Gravity. 



276. Each element is a total representation of the aether. 



277. An element is not that which is chemically 

 inseparable, but it is only the Whole, which has first ori- 

 ginated. But the elemental bodies are chemically non- 

 decomposible, because they are already separate, being 

 moieties or fractions. 



278. The heat element is the hydrogen element Air. 



279. The light element is the oxygen element _ 

 Water. 



280. The gravity element is the carbon element 

 Earth. 



281. In each element, beside the basic or combus- 

 tible elemental body, there is also oxygen ; for they are 

 verily naught else than the aether fixed by light, aether that 

 has become heavy by means of light. 



AIR. 



282. The first condensation of the aether must be that 

 which corresponds to its condition as heat. This ele- 



