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To know what this Element is, we may consider the efficient of it, the ground whence it proceeded, the manner how it was brought forth, and the end for which it was produced, which are the same with those which are mentioned in the Element of Fire. The es∣sential
properties of this Earth are Ponderosity, Corpo∣reity and Transparency. For you must know that this Eternal Earth, is not like the outward Elementary Earth, so gross and opacous, but it is a transparent Crystalline Earth; yet it gives essentiality and Corpo∣reity to the three forementioned Elements: and it was therefore created by God to make Eternal Nature's Essence substantial. For Fire, Water and Air must have one ground or substance to subsist in, and to move in and through one another, which substance is the Element of Earth. This Element Behme makes the seventh proper∣ty, in which, he saith, all the six do move, in one only ground, as the Soul in the Body, which is very well expressed by him. And thus much concerning the matter of which Eternal Nature doth consist, viz. Fire, Water, Air and Earth.