(167) Thus also is the Change and Alteration of Heaven, into many several Colours and Forms, but not in such a Manner and Kind as in this World, but all according to the Rising up of the Spirits of God, and the Light of the Son of God shines therein eternally: But the Rising up in the Birth differs in the Degrees more at one Time than another. And therefore the wonderful Wisdom of God is incomprehensible.

(70) then the Sun and Stars will return again to their first Place, and will pass away in such a Form or Manner, for the Heart and Light of God shall give Light and shine again in the Corporeity, that is, in the Body of this World, and replenish or fill all. And

(66) Behold, when God said, Let there be Light, then the Light in the Powers of Nature, or the seven Spirits of God, rose up, and the Firmament of Heaven, which stands in the Word, in the Heart of the Water, between the astral and outermost Birth or Geniture, was closed or shut up, by or with the Word and Heart of the Water, and the astral Birth is the Place of the Parting-mark or Limit, which stands half in Heaven, and half in the Wrath.

(2) It came to pass then, when Jesus had reached the heaven, after three hours, that all the powers of the heaven fell into agitation, and all were set in motion one against the other, they and all their æons and all their regions and all their orders, and the whole earth was agitated and all they who dwell thereon. And all men who are in the world fell into agitation, and also the disciples, and all thought: Peradventure the world will be rolled up. And all the powers in the heavens ceased not from their agitation, they and the whole world, and all were moved one against the other, from the third hour of the fifteenth day of the moon of Tybi until the ninth hour of the morrow. And all the angels and their archangels and all the powers of the height, all sang praises to the interiors of the interiors, so that the whole world heard their voices, without their ceasing till the ninth hour of the morrow.

(19) 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."

(18) And in that Moment of Departing, there mpass away Heaven and Earth, Sun, Moon, Stars, and Elements, and thenceforth Time is no more.

(2) "And all the angels of the æons and their archangels and their rulers and their gods and their lords and their authorities and their tyrants and their powers and their light-sparks and their light-givers and their unpaired and their invisibles and their forefathers and their triple-powers saw me, shining most exceedingly, and there was no measure for the light which was about me. And they were thrown into agitation the one over against the other and great fear fell upon them, when they saw the great light that was about me. And in their great agitation and their great fear they withdrew as far as the region of the great invisible Forefather, and of the three great triple-powers. And because of the great fear of their agitation, the great Forefather, he and the three triple-powers, kept on running hither and thither in his region, and they could not close all their regions because of the great fear in which they were. And they agitated all their æons together and all their spheres and all their orders, fearing and being greatly agitated because of the great light which was about me--not of the former quality that it was about me when I was on the earth of man-kind, when the light-vesture came over me,--for the world could not bear the light such as it was in its truth, else would the world at once be destroyed and all upon it,--but the light which was about me in the twelve æons was eight-thousand-and-seven-hundred-myriad times greater than that which was about me in the world among you.

(4) There are seven Spirits of God, all these seven have moved themselves, and the Light therein has also moved itself, and the Spirit, which goes forth out of the seven Spirits of God, has moved itself also.

(2) All things being undefined and yet unwrought, the light things were assigned unto the height, the heavy ones had their foundations laid down underneath the moist part of Dry Space, the universal things being bounded off by Fire and hanged in Breath to keep them up. And Heaven was seen in seven circles; its Gods were visible in forms of stars with all their signs; while Nature had her members made articulate together with the Gods in her. And [Heaven's] periphery revolved in cyclic course, borne on by Breath of God.

(3) "And all rulers and all authorities and all angels therein were thrown all together into agitation because of the great light which was on me. And they gazed at the radiant vesture of light with which I was clad, and they saw the mystery which contains their names, and they feared most exceedingly. And all their bonds with which they were bound, were unloosed and every one left his order, and they all fell down before me, adored and said: 'How hath the lord of the universe passed through us without our knowing?' And they all sang praises together to the interiors of the interiors; but me they saw not, but they saw only the light. And they were in great fear and were exceedingly agitated and sang praises to the interiors of the interiors.

(29) Every Star has a several peculiar Property, which thou mayest perceive by the curious Ornament of the budding blossoming Earth. And the Creator has therefore rebuilt and revived again the old kindled Body into so many and various Powers, that through this old Life, in the Wrath, such a new Life might generate itself therein, through the Closure of Heaven, that that new Life might have all the Powers and Operations that ever the old had before the Times of Wrath, that it might qualify, mix, or unite with the pure Deity distinct from this World, and that it might be one holy God, together with the Deity without, distinct from this World.

(111) The whole Nature of the Heaven stands in the seven qualifying or fountain-Spirits, and in the seventh consists Nature or the Apprehensibility of all the Qualities: This now is very lightome and solid as a Cloud, but very transparent and shining, like a Chrystalline Sea, so that a Man can see through and through it all: Yet the whole Depth upward and downward is wholly thus.

(9) now when God had bound up the Devil in the Darkness through the Closure of the Heaven, which Heaven is every where in all Places; then he began again his wonderful Birth or Geniture in the seventh Nature-Spirit, and all generated again as it had done from Eternity.

(73) Now when the Heaven was made for a Distinction, or Partition between the Light of God and the kindled Corruption of the Body of this World, then was the Body of this World a dark Valley, and had no Light that could have shone forth in the outward Body, besides the Heaven; there stood all Powers as it were captivated in Death, and were in great Anguish, till they had heated themselves in the Midst or Center of the Body.

(150) In such Manner and Colours, the Heaven of God's Nature shows or presents itself in the Rising up of the Spirits of God: And now when the Light of the Son of God shines therein, then it is like a bright clear Sea, of the Colours of the above-mentioned precious Stones or Jewels. Of the wonderful Proportion, Alteration or Variation, and Rising up of the Qualities in the heavenly Nature. [Or God's Nature's Heaven.]

(6) "All this then which I have said unto you, will not take place at this time, but it will take place at the consummation of the æon, that is at the ascension of the universe; that is at the dissolution of the universe and at the total ascension of the numbering of the perfect souls of the inheritances of the Light. "Before the consummation, therefore, this which I have said unto you, will not take place, but every one will be in his own region, into which he hath been set from the beginning, until the numbering of the ingathering of the perfect souls is completed. "The seven Voices and the five Trees and the three Amēns and the Twin-saviours and the nine guards and the twelve saviours and those of the region of the Right and those of the region of the Midst, every one will abide in the region in which they have been set, until the numbering of the perfect souls of the inheritances of the Light shall be raised up all together. "And also all the rulers who have repented, they also will abide in the region into which they have been set, until the numbering of the souls of the Light shall be raised up all together.

(7) In the midst of heaven he beheld it come forth