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Therefore, man, who is called a "microcosm," has five senses like five

doors, through which enters into his soul the cognition of all that is in

the sensible world. For through sight enter the transparent ("sublimia"),

luminous, and other colored bodies; through touch the solid and terrestrial

bodies; by the three intermediate senses the intermediates, as by taste the

aqueous, by hearing the aerial, by odor the vaporous - all of which have

something of a humid nature, something aerial, something fiery or warm, as

appears in the smoke which is freed from incense.

There enter then through these doors, not only simple bodies, but also

composite, mixed from these. But since by sense we perceive not only these

particular sensibles, which are light, sound, odor, savor, and the four

primary qualities which touch apprehends, but also the common sensibles,

which are number, magnitude, figure, rest, and motion, and since everything

which is moved is moved by something, and some are self-moved and remain at

rest, as the animals, it follows that when through these five senses we

apprehend the motion of bodies, we are led to the cognition of spiritual

movers, as through an effect we are led to a knowledge of its causes.