And the matter continues until God created the elements, which are the pillars, and then joined heat to the dry land in a special way, and from that combination was the element of fire, which is also expressed by the element of fire, then air in the same way, then water, then earth, and then God Almighty made some of them transform into each other through mediations and without mediations. If the two elements are repulsive in all respects, it is transformed into the appropriate, then that appropriate is transformed into the other, closest suitable to it, which was repugnant to the first impossible, so it is accepted to be transformed into it through the mediation of this suitable that is closest to it in terms of absurdity or density.