[35] Nature may be said to point out the way, because its forerunning
energy is employed by Divinity in the formation of bodies. By _the
fabricator_, in the above sentence, Firmicus means Jupiter, who is called
the _Demiurgus_ by Plato, in the Timæus.
[36] i. e. Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury.
[37]
—— Quid mirum noscere mundum
Si possent homines, quibus est et mundus in ipsis;
Exemplumque Dei quisque est in imagine parva?