Note 35 — MUNDI THEMA, OR THE GENITURE OF THE WORLD. TRANSLATED FROM THE THIRD BOOK OF THE MATHESIS OF JULIUS FIRMICUS MATERNUS.
Thomas Taylor translation
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.