I Await Your Sentence With Less Fear

Of The Eternal Corporeal Substance (which Is Not Producible Ex Nihilo, Nor Reducible Ad Nihilum, But Rarefiable, Condensable, Formable, Arrangeable, And "fashionable") The Composition Is Dissolved, The Complexion Is Changed, The Figure Is Modified, The Being Is Altered, The Fortune Is Varied, Only The Elements Remaining What They Are In Substance, That Same Principle Persevering Which Was Always The One Material Principle, Which Is The True Substance Of Things, Eternal, Ingenerable And Incorruptible.

Since I Have Spread My Wings To Purpose High, The More Beneath My Feet The Clouds I See, The More I Give The Winds My Pinions Free, Spurning The Earth And Soaring To The Sky.

They Dispute Not In Order To Find Or Even To Seek Truth, But For Victory, And To Appear The More Learned And Strenuous Upholders Of A Contrary Opinion. Such Persons Should Be Avoided By All Who Have Not A Good Breastplate Of Patience.

I Have Declared Infinite Worlds To Exist Beside This Our Earth. It Would Not Be Worthy Of God To Manifest Himself In Less Than An Infinite Universe.

There Is In The Universe Neither Center Nor Circumference.