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Bundahishn
Chapter II (0)
On the formation of the luminaries.
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (139)
No, the sun and stars were first created but on the fourth day, out of that very light: There was a light arisen in the seven spirits of nature which...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter II (8)
And on the fourth day He created the sun and the moon and the stars, and set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon all the earth, an...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (2)
For when God through the Word had created heaven and earth, and had separated the light from the darkness, and had given a place to each of them, then...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (23)
In such a Manner as this the Sun rose up in the Fiat, and out of the Sun (in its first Kindling) [rose] the other Planets, viz. upwards, out of the...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (101)
For evening and morning were not before the time of the sun and stars, which most certainly and really were first created but on the fourth day, which...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXII (4)
And first there goes forth the great luminary, named the Sun, and his circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and he is quite filled wi...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (33)
For from the heaven the stars have their first kindling, and are only as an instrument, which God useth to the birth or geniture.
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (26)
Moses writeth concerning them thus: And God said; Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, to divide or distinguish the day from the night;...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXII (36)
And that which (thus) rises is the great luminary, and is so named according to its appearance, according as the Lord commanded.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XIX (25)
And these shall serve To lay the foundations of the heaven, And to strengthen the earth, And to renew all the luminaries which are in the firmament."
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (33)
Thus on the fourth Day, by the Fiat, out of the Virtue, he prepared the Similitude of his Substance [and fitted it] to be a Matrix, which should...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXII (2)
And this is the first law of the luminaries: the luminary the Sun has its rising in the eastern portals of the heaven, and its setting in the western ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (14)
Moses writes; God said, Let there be Light in the Firmament of Heaven, which may separate and distinguish Day and Night, and be for Signs, for Times...
Time and Celestial Bodies (38d)
Timaeus: The Moon He placed in the first circle around the Earth, the Sun in the second above the Earth; and the Morning Star and the Star called...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (21)
The birth, or the rising or springing up of the seven planets, and of all the stars, is no otherwise than as the life, and wonderful proportion,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 7: Of the Heaven and its eternal Birth and Essence, and how the four Elements are generated; wherein the eternal Band may be the more and the better understood, by meditating and considering the material World. The great Depth. (25)
Now thus the eternal Light, and the Virtue of the Light, or the heavenly Paradise, moves in the eternal Darkness; and the Darkness cannot comprehend...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (47)
I here set down this description of the birth or geniture of man's life, to the end that the original of the stars and planets may be the better...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (28)
I. First, there arose the fire-crack, or the mobility in the heat; and that is the beginning of life in the chamber of death. II. After this,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 7: Of the Heaven and its eternal Birth and Essence, and how the four Elements are generated; wherein the eternal Band may be the more and the better understood, by meditating and considering the material World. The great Depth. (26)
Thus it is plain to our Sight, how the starry Heaven, (or as I may better render it to the enlightened Reader) the Quintessence, (or the fifth Form...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 12: Of the Opening of the Holy Scripture, that the Circumstances may be highly considered. The golden Gate, which God affords to the last World, wherein the Lily shall flourish [and blossom.] (19)
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 arise...
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