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"The Egyptians’ worship for the most diverse animals and plants, such ascrocodiles, roosters, onions or turnips, was owed to the fact that they perceived the vital principle of the cosmos manifesting itself in all theseparticular aspects, which, despite their perishableness, were hosts todivinity both individually and collectively. The hermetic philosophy isprecisely that art by which one learns to ascend toward a uniqueprinciple that manifests itself in a multitude of manners. In this respect,an extremely important part was played by the study of the effects thestars had on the earthly life, with special emphasis on those of the Sunand Moon. Later on, nature – the
 physis 
 – was interpreted according toother seven astral determinations, corresponding to the same number of so-called wandering celestial bodies, to which they attributed, as to aprime principle and fruitful cause, all the differences among species. Thisis to say that some of the plants, animals, rocks and other things dependon Saturn, others on Jupiter, others yet on Mars, etc. Therefore thequalities of the terrestrial world, including the colours, the characteristics of things, their seals and their images are dependent on the sevenplanets" -7-8