(138) For the Goddess bringeth forth the Vast Sun, and the lucent Moon.

(19) And the Light of the Sun is as it were a God in the Nature of this World, and by its Virtue [and Influence] it continually kindles the Stars [or Constellations] whereby the Stars [or Constellations] (which are of a very terrible and anguishing Essence) continually exult in Triumph very joyfully. For it [the Sun] is an Essence like the Light of God, which kindles and enlightens the dark Mind of the Father, from whence, by the Light, there arises the divine Joy in the Father.

(22) The Sun is the Goddess in the third Principle; in the created World (understand, in the material Virtue) it went forth out of the Darkness in the Anguish of the Will, in the Way and Manner of the eternal Birth. For when God set the Fiat in the Darkness, then the Darkness received the Will of God, and was impregnated P for the Birth. The Will causes the [sour] Harshness, the Harshness causes the Attracting, and the Stirring of the Attracting to Mobility causes the Bitterness, which is the Woe, and the Woe causes the Anguish, and the Anguish causes the Moving, Breaking, and Rising up. Now the sour Harshness cannot endure the Stirring, and therefore attracts the harder to itself; and the Bitterness or the Attracting will not endure to be stayed, but breaks and stings so very hard in the Attracting, that it stirs up the Heat, wherein the Flash springs up, and the dark [Sourness or] Harshness is affrighted by the Flash, and in the Shriek the Fire kindles, and in the Fire the Light. Now there would be no Light if the Shriek in the Hardness had not been, but there would have remained nothing but Fire; yet the Shriek in the Harshness of the Fire kills the hard Harshness, so that it sinks down as it were to the Ground, and becomes as it were dead and soft; and when the Flash perceives itself in the Harshness, then it is affrighted much more, because it finds the Mother so very mild, and half dead in Weakness; and so in this Shriek its fiery Property becomes white, soft, and mild, and it is the Kindling of the Light, wherein the Fire is changed into a white Clarity, [Glance, Luster, or Brightness.]

(133) The Sun is a Fire, the Channel of Fire, and the dispenser of Fire.

(131) The Sun more true measureth all things by time, being itself the time of time, according to the Oracle of the Gods concerning it.

(57) Now you may well perceive that the Birth of the Sun takes its Original in the Fire, and attains his Personality and Name in the Kindling of the soft, white, and clear Light, which is Himself; and Himself makes the pleasant Smell, Taste, and Satisfaction [or Reconciliation and Well-pleasing] in the Father, and is rightly the Father's Heart, and another Person; for he opens and produces the second Principle in the Father; and his own Essence is the Power or Virtue and the Light; and therefore his is rightly called the Power or Virtue of the Father.

(1) These same are father, mother, and offspring. The father is Mind. The mother is Speech. The offspring is Breath. l

(5) From him comes Agni (fire), the sun being the fuel; from the moon (Soma) comes rain (Parganya); from the earth herbs; and man gives seed unto the woman. Thus many beings are begotten from the Person (purusha).

(65) The Sun stands in the Center or Midst of the Deep, and is the Light or Heart which proceeded out of all Stars: For when the Salitter and Mercurius, before the Creation of the World, in the Kingdom of Lucifer, became thin or dim, and had qualified one with the other, then God extracted the Heart out of all the Powers, and made the Sun thereof. And

(13) First behold the Sun; it is the Heart or King of all Stars, and gives Light to all Stars from the East to the West; it enlightens and warms all, all lives and grows by its Power; besides, the Joy of all Creatures stands in its Power.

(30) It as well generates its Father and Mother, as its Father and Mother generate it; for after that it is corporeally generated, it then with the astringent Quality always generates the Fire again, and the Fire generates Light, and the Light is the Flash, which always generates the Life again in all the qualifying, or fountain Spirits; whence the Spirits have Life, and always generate one another again.

(1) Likewise of that Mind the sky is the body. Its light- form is yon sun. As far as Mind extends, so far extends the sky, so far yon sun. These two [the fire and the sun] entered sexual union. Therefrom was born Breath. He is Indra. He is without a rival. Verily, a second person is a rival He who knows this has no rival.

(72) For it is the only and sole natural Light of this World, and besides it, there is no more any true Light in the House of Death; and though it seems as if the other Stars did shine bright and give Light also, yet it is not so, but they take all their Luster and shining Light from the Sun; as hereafter presented follows. The true Birth, or Geniture and Descent of the Sun and of the other Planets, is just thus as follows.

(65) Consider the Sun and Stars again; the Stars being many and several, inexpressible and innumerable, signify the Father: Out of the Stars the Sun is come to be; for God has made it out of them, and it signifies the Son of God. And

(53) The Sun is made or generated from all the Stars, and is a Light taken from the whole Nature, and shines again into the whole Nature of this World; it is united with the other Stars, as if itself together with all the Stars was but one Star. And

(20) And so it [the Sun] makes a Triumphing, or Rising [to be] in the Matrix of the Water, always like a Seething; for the Stars cast their Virtue [or Influence] in the Matrix of the Water, as being therein; in like Manner also now the Matrix of the Root or Mother, Water is continually seething and rising, from whence comes the Regimen [or Dominion] of the Sun and Stars, and also of the Elements, rules in all Creatures, and it is a Blossom or Bud from them, and without their Power, there would be in this World, in the third Principle, no Life, nor Mobility, in any Manner of Thing, nothing excepted.

(13) For as the Sun is the Heart of Life, and a Cause of the Spirits of Nature; so Saturn is the Heart and the Cause of all Bodies, and Imagings, Formings and Framings in the Earth, and upon the Earth, as also in the whole Body of this World.

(44) The sheen of gold in her dark hair indicates that while she is lunar, her power is due to the sun's rays, from which she secures her ruddy complexion. As the moon is robed in the reflected light of the sun, so Isis, like the virgin of Revelation, is clothed in the glory of solar luminosity. Apuleius states that while he was sleeping he beheld the venerable goddess Isis rising out of the ocean. The ancients realized that the primary forms of life first came out of water, and modem science concurs in this view. H. G. Wells, in his Outline of History, describing primitive life on the earth, states: "But though the ocean and intertidal water already swarmed with life, the land above the high-tide line was still, so far as we can guess, a stony wilderness without a trace of life." In the next chapter he adds: "Wherever the shore-line ran there was life, and that life went on in and by and with water as its home, its medium, and its fundamental necessity." The ancients believed that the universal sperm proceeded from warm vapor, humid but fiery. The veiled Isis, whose very coverings represent vapor, is symbolic of this humidity, which is the carrier or vehicle for the sperm life of the sun, represented by a child in her arms. Because the sun, moon, and stars in setting appear to sink into the sea and also because the water receives their rays into itself, the sea was believed to be the breeding ground for the sperm of living things. This sperm is generated from the combination of the influences of the celestial bodies; hence Isis is sometimes represented as pregnant.

(58) For as the Sun shines not from or out of the other Stars, though it had its Original from the other Stars; so also the Son shines not from, or out of the Powers of the Father, as to his Body or Corporiety.

(12) For as Nature with the working, wrestling, and rising up of its Birth or Geniture stood in the Time of the Kindling, just such a Matter attracted itself together. Now it may be asked: How then is a comprehensible or palpable Son come to be out of an incomprehensible Mother? Answer.