Note 117 — Concerning that which is Eternal, for the Purpose of demonstrating the Eternity of the World.
Thomas Taylor translation
Thus matter possesses a certain obscure image of being, but does not preserve the most debile impression of form. For as the gradations of being are more extended than those of form, and as matter is the last of things; thence matter may be said to retain the footstep of being in its dark receptacle, whilst the processions of form are reflected like echoes from its rebounding seat.