(36) But when the Light of the Sun kindled itself, then the next Circle or Orb above the Sun stood in the Fire-crack, for the Sun or the Light was shining in the Water, and the Bitterness ascended also in the Fire-crack out of the Water. But the Light made very great Haste after it, and laid hold on the Fire-crack, and there it remained standing as a Captive, and became corporeal.

(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.

(32) But seeing the Place of the Sun, that is, the SUN itself, contained all Qualities according to the Right of the Deity, as also what all other Places had, thereupon instantly in the first Kindling, all the Qualities went upwards and downwards, and generated themselves according to the eternal, unbeginning, infinite Law and Right.

(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.

(46) Now Observe: The Sun sits in the Midst, in the Deep, between the Stars, in a round Circle, and is the Heart of the Stars, and gives Light and Power to all the Stars, to tempering the Power of the Stars, that all becomes pleasant and joyful.

(38) But seeing the Heat in the middle Point or Center of the Body was so mighty great, thereupon it extended itself so very largely, and opened the Chamber of Death so wide before its Kindling of the Light, that it, the SUN, is the greatest Star.

(23) as the Sun which turns round in its Circle, and shoots forth from itself Heat and Light, whether it be for Benefit or Hurt to the Earth and Creatures, which indeed would be for Hurt, if the other Planets and Stars did not hinder.

(39) But as soon as the Light kindled itself in the Heat, so instantly was that hot Place caught in the Light, and then the Body of the Sun could grow no bigger. For the Light mitigated the Heat, and so the Body of the Sun remained there flowing in the Midst or Center as a Heart, for the Light is the Heart of Nature, not the Heat. But here thou must observe exactly,

(3) That flowed forth, and went towards the sun. And that forms what seems to stir in the centre of the sun.

(40) As far as the middle Point or Center has kindled itself, just so big is the Sun; for the Sun is nothing else but a kindled Point in the Body of Nature.

(76) It may be likened to the round Globe of the Sun, which shines upwards, downwards, and on every Side; and to the Splendor, together with all the Powers, goes forth from the Son of God in the whole Father.

(48) For as the Sun stands in the Midst, betwixt the Stars and the Earth, enlightening all Powers, and is the Light and Heart of all the Powers, and is all the Joy in this World; besides, all Beauty and Pleasantness standeth in the Light and Power of the Sun;

(139) No, the Sun and Stars were first created but on the fourth Day, out of that very Light: There was a Light risen in the seven Spirits of Nature, which had no peculiar distinct Seat or Place, but shone every where all over, but was not bright like the Sun, but like an azure Blue and Light, according to the Kind and Manner of the qualifying or fountain Spirits; till afterwards the right Creation and Kindling of the Fire in the Water, in the astringent Spirit, followed, viz. the Sun.

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

(68) Consider this Similitude: Out of the Sun and Stars go forth the Elements, and they make in the Salitter of the Earth a living Spirit, and the Stars remain in their Circle or Sphere, and that Spirit likewise gets the Quality of the Stars.

(68) The Place, where the SUN is, is such a Place as you may choose or suppose any where above the Earth; and if God should kindle the Light by the Heat, then the whole World would be such a mere SUN; for that same Power, wherein the Sun stands, is every where all over; and before the Time of Wrath, it was every where all over in the Place of this World, as Light as the Sun is now, but not so intolerable.

(39) Timaeus: for, because of their simultaneous progress in two opposite directions, the motion of the Same, which is the swiftest of all motions, twisted all their circles into spirals and thus caused the body which moves away from it most slowly to appear the nearest. And in order that there might be a clear measure of the relative speeds, slow and quick, with which they travelled round their eight orbits, in that circle which is second from the earth God kindled a light which now we call the Sun, to the end that it might shine, so far as possible, throughout the whole Heaven, and that all the living creatures entitled thereto might participate in number, learning it from the revolution of the Same and Similar.

(73) And there goes forth from all the Stars the Power which is in every Star into the Deep: And the Power, Heat, and Shining of the Sun, goes likewise into the Deep. And

(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.]