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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 in the Birth,) is severed from the watery Matrix; or else there would have been no ceasing from the generating of Stones and Earth, if the fiery P Nature had not been severed: But because the eternal Essence (viz. God) would manifest himself in the dark Matrix, and [has desired] to make the Nothing Something, therefore he has severed the kindled Virtue, and made the Matrix clear or pure.
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (42)
For the outermost birth of the water cannot comprehend the innermost birth of the water which is called heaven, and which is made out of the midst or ...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (87)
Nature has likewise manifested or revealed so much to man, that he knoweth how he may melt away the strange or heterogene matter from every...