This doctrine, with the fifth principle, is the correct one in our view, and it is called nature, for nature is one intelligible from which the pillar of fire and all the pillars appeared, so it is said that the pillar of fire is from nature what it is itself, and it is not correct for the total to be the same as the four, for some of the pillars are repulsive to the others in whole, and some of them are repulsive to others by command. One, like fire and water, repulsive in all aspects, and air and earth are likewise, and for this reason God arranged them in existence in a wise order for the sake of transformations. If He made the repulsive adjacent to the repulsive, it would not have been transformed into it, and wisdom would be suspended. So He made the air next to the pillar of fire, bringing together heat, He made the water next to the air, and bringing together moisture, and He made the earth next to the water, bringing together the two. Coldness, then the impossible is a fat