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people do not consider the elements within any decretals and
laws to be bad just because others made and established them, for all the laws
are based on and derive from the seven arts. And they are
believed and maintained everywhere there are people
who know anything about them. And all the arguments
that proceed from the seven arts are true in all cases
and all places. And this knowledge does not change,
rather it always remains stable and true. At this point I
will stop telling you any more about this, for it has been
covered very thoroughly above. Now I will
tell you about the incidents (see note) and acts of Nature, and,
in brief, what Nature is. For she was the first thing that
God created, before He created anything else that
belongs to the world. And for this reason we should
speak of her first, making clear that we do so in order
to describe the world afterwards. For the firmament
turns and changes according to Nature, and
all things that have movement do similarly. Nature changes
the stars and makes them to shine and come into being. And she
can also destroy as she wishes. But since not everyone
understands what this entails in