“The scale has formless matter at the bottom and matterless form at the top.”

“The existent universe is a scale of being lying between the two extremes of formless matter and matterless form.”

“In a universe that is vast and mostly matterless, in which the invisible exceeds the visible by a staggering margin, the extraordinary fact about us is that we number among the things that can be seen.”

“In such a case the discharge originally is thick and mattery.”