Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

Change is the nature of nature,'" she read. "'For example, stars expand as they grow older. They grow from a star, to a red super-giant, to a supernova. When a massive star explodes at the end of its life, the explosion dispenses different elements-helium, carbon, oxygen, iron, nickel-across the universe, scattering starduest. That stardust now makes up the planets, including ours.

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.