_There is in them fiery vigor and celestiall Origin, In seeds as much as our harmelesse bodies stay them, And our terrene joints dull them, and our dying members_. The other on the contrary, though more subtill and essential rusheth out here below toward the earth, as if these two aspired incessantly to encounter each other, and to face each other, in the fashion of two Pyramides; whereof that above should have its basis planted in the _Zodiack_, where the Sunne perfects his annuall course through the 12 Signs: from the point of which _Pyramis_, comes to cast here below all that which is here procreated, and hath being, according to the Astrologers of Ægypt; that there is nothing produced in the earth, and in the water, which was not first sowed in heaven, which is there, as a labourer to cultivate it, and by his heate, impregned here below, with the efficacy of his influences, conducts the whole to its compleat perfection and maturity, which _Aristotle_ also confirmes in his bookes of Beginning and Ending. But the fire here below on the contrary at the basis of his _Pyramis_, fastned to the earth, making one of six faces of the Cube, whereof the _Pythagoreans_ give him the forme and figure, because of its forme, and invariable stability; and from the point of this _Pyramis_ the subtill vapours mount upwards, which serve as nourishment to the Sun, and to all the rest of the Celestiall bodies, according as _Phurnutus_ writeth after others. Men attribute (saith hee) inextinguished fire unto _Vesta_, peradventure for that the power of fire that is in the world, takes it nourishment from thence, and that from thence the Sunne is maintained and consisteth. This is that also, that _Hermes_ would inferre in his Table of _Emeraudes_: That which is below, is as that which is above, and contrarywise, to perpetrate miracles of one thing. And _Rabbi Joseph_ the sonne of _Carnitol_ in his ports of Justice, the foundation of all the inferior ædifices is placed above, and their heap or top here below as a Tree inverted. So that a man is but as a spirituall tree planted in the Paradise of delights, which is the earth of the living, by the roots of his haires; following that which is written in the _Canticles 7. The haire of thy head like purple, the King is bound in the Galleries._ These two fires then, the high and the low, who do know themselves, and so one another, have beene no lesse unknowne to the Poets, for _Homer_ in the 18 of his Iliads, having placed _Vulcans_ forge in the eighth starry heaven, where he is accompanied with his Artisans endowed with singular prudence, and who know two sorts of workes, which were taught them by the immortall Gods, wherein they labour in his presence; _Virgill_ in his 8 of the Æneads hath suffered him to set his shop here below in the earth, in an Island called _Vulcanian_. _Vulcans house, and by name, Vulcans earth._