(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 Center of the Water. [“Heaven is the Firmament, viz. the Fire-sea, or Sea of Fire, out of the seven Spirits of Nature, out of which the Stars as a Quintessence were concreted, incorporated, or created by the Word FIAT: And it has or contains both Fire and Water, and hangs in itself inwardly on the first Principle, and shall bring its Wonders, with or as to the Figure of them, into the Eternal; but its Birth or Geniture fades or passes away.”]

(52) But seeing the whole Deep in the third Birth or Geniture was very dark in regard of the corrupted Salitter of the Earth and Stones, therefore the Deity could not endure it to be so, but created and compacted the Earth and Stones together as in one Lump, or as on a Heap. Concerning which, Moses writes thus: Am Anfang erschuff GOTT Himmel und Erden. In the Beginning, created, GOD, Heaven and Earth. [Gen. 1. 1. as on a Heap. Concerning which, Moses writes thus:]

(68) But when in these two Days the Creation of Heaven and of Earth was completed, and that the Heaven was made in the Heart of the Water, for a Difference or Distinction between the Light of God, and the Wrath of God, then on the third Day, through the Terror or Crack of the Fire-flash, which rose up in the Heart of the Water, and presses through Death, incomprehensibly as to Death, there sprung up all Manner of Ideas, Forms, and Figures, as was done before the Time of the kindled Wrath.

(47) Now that Impurity in that Heaven is the Wrath; but the Purity is the Word of God, which he once spoke, saying; 'Let the Water under the Firmament be separated from the Water above the Firmament.' And that Word stands, and is comprised in the Firmament of the Water, and holds the outward Water, together with the Earth, captive or fixed. The Gate of the Deity. Observe here the hidden Mystery of God. [Gen. 1.]

(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.

(51) It is made out of the Midst of the Waters, but not qualifying in such a Manner as the Water in the Elements, for Fierceness or Wrath is not therein. However Heaven belongs to Nature, because the Stars and Elements have their Original and Power from the Heaven.