Existent, and through it, He was his Lord, and there was no relationship between the one being desired and the essence of the Lord. For this reason, there was nothing about the essence, as the owners of causes and effects say. The essence does not direct itself to create things from its being an entity, but rather it directs itself over things from the ratio of power to it and the lack of hindrance, and that is what is called divinity. Likewise, the natures were arranged by God in a strange order for the sake of transformations. He made the element of fire followed by air, the element of air followed by water, and the element of water followed by earth. Thus, between water and fire there is a natural repulsion in all aspects, and between air and earth there is a natural repulsion in all aspects. So He made the mediators between them because they have two aspects, and each of the following two extremes has a special occasion. If the truth wanted to transform water into fire, and it