One strength, one Dæmon, great, on whom all beings hang:
His regal body grasps the vast material round:
There fire, earth, air, and wave, and day and night, are found.
The same physico-theology appears in the Orphean verses,
I swear by those, the generating powers,
Whence sprang the gods that have eternal being;
Fire, Water, Earth, and Heaven, the Moon and Sun,
Great Love effulgent, and the sable Night!
and in another fragment, preserved by Eusebius: (Præparat. Evang. iii. 9.)
Fire, water, earth, and ether, night and day,