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For looking upward, they perceived certain conditions of many stars; from there, they endeavored to know the properties of the seven planets more propensely than the rest: as they have proven by long experience, being the principal dispensers of worldly things. They therefore obtained indubitable faith through the sense, that the disposition of the stars disposes the elemental World, and all things that are composed by them, are contained within it, in whatever place and at whatever time. So much so that no substance, no accident subsists here which is not figured in its heaven, and this is not doubted to proceed from the rays of the same sent into the World. For every star has its own proper nature and condition in which the projection of its rays is contained along with others: And just as each one has its own proper nature which it is impossible to find totally in any other, in which the emission of rays is contained: So the rays themselves are diverse in nature in diverse stars, just as the stars themselves are diverse in nature. Moreover, every star has its position in the worldly machine different from all others: whence it follows necessarily that every star takes a different respect than another toward all other things, and all things and places contained in the World. We experience, however, the varied effects of the rays, just as the other properties of the stars themselves are varied. Whence it is that every star acts otherwise and in another way in diverse places and things. For the ray that proceeds from the center of a star to the center of the earth is proven to be the strongest in the operations of its species: but those that are angled from the center of the earth are weakened in effect according to the proportion of the inclination, unless they are strengthened in the same places by the concurring rays of other stars. For in every place, every star pours out its rays, because of which the diversity of rays, combined into one place, varies all things contained in those places, since in every place there is a different tenor of rays which is derived from the total harmony of the stars. It is clear, therefore, that all diverse places constitute individuals in this World, which the celestial harmony does, by rays projected into the World, diversifying itself continuously.