The Substrat of Essence

The substrate possesses essence only incompletely, and far from producing other things is sterile. It is only an adumbration, and onto this adumbration are reflected images which have only the appearance instead of real existence. So much then for what we had to say of sense being and the genus it constitutes. It remains to analyze it into species. Every sense being is a body, but there are elementary and organized bodies. The former are fire, earth, water, and air. Organized bodies are those of plants and animals distinguished from each other by their forms.