(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;

(69) But seeing the Heart of the Deity bides itself in the Body of this World in the outermost Birth or Geniture, which is the Corporeity, thereupon the Corporeity is a dark House, and all stands in great Anguish, and needs a Light to shine in the Chamber of the Darkness, which is the Sun, and that so long till the Heart of God will move itself again in the seven Spirits of God in the House of this World, and kindle the seven Spirits. And

(29) The solar orb, like the nature of man, was divided by the ancient sages into three separate bodies. According to the mystics, there are three suns in each solar system, analogous to the three centers of life in each individual constitution. These are called three lights: the spiritual sun, the intellectual or soular sun, and the material sun (now symbolized in Freemasonry by three candles). The spiritual sun manifests the power of God the Father; the soular sun radiates the life of God the Son; and the material sun is the vehicle of manifestation for God the Holy Spirit. Man's nature was divided by the mystics into three distinct parts: spirit, soul, and body. His physical body was unfolded and vitalized by the material sun; his spiritual nature was illuminated by the spiritual sun; and his intellectual nature was redeemed by the true light of grace--the soular sun. The alignment of these three globes in the heavens was one explanation offered for the peculiar fact that the orbits of the planets are not circular but elliptical.

(31) Recognizing the sun as the supreme benefactor of the material world, Hermetists believed that there was a spiritual sun which ministered to the needs of the invisible and divine part of Nature--human and universal. Anent this subject, the great Paracelsus wrote: "There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of His existence; but those who have not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel His power by an inner faculty which is called Intuition."

(79) And as in the Four Elements, there is the Power and Splendor of the Sun and all the Stars, so it is in the whole Deep of the Father, and that is, and is rightly called, the Holy Ghost, which is the third self-subsisting Person in the Deity. Of the Holy TRINITY.

(51) as the Sun is a self-subsisting Creature, Power, and Light, which shineth not forth from or out of all Creatures, but in and into all Creatures, and all Creatures rejoice in its Power;

(84) It has in it the first Principle; the Spirit of the Soul has the Second; and the astral or starry Spirit in the Elements has the Third, viz. this World."]

(70) But here I will show thee the right Mystery. Behold, the Sun is the Heart of all Powers in this World, and is compacted, framed, or composed out of all the Powers of the Stars, it re-enlightens all the Stars, and all the Powers in this World, and all Powers grow as it were, operative, or qualifying in its Power. ["Understand it Magically: For it is a Mirror, Look-ing-Glass, or Similitude of the Eternal World."]

(29) The Supreme Deity is symbolized by the small globe at the top, which is divided into two hemispheres, the dark half representing the divine darkness with which the Deity surround Himself and which serves as His hiding place. The radiant hemisphere signifies the divine light which is in God and which, pouring forth, manifests as the objective creative power. The large dark globe to the left and beneath the dark half of the upper sphere signifies the potential darkness which was upon the face of the primordial deep and within which moved the Spirit of God. The light globe to the right is the Deity who is revealed out of the darkness. Here the shining Word has dissipated the shadows and a glorious universe has been formed. The divine power of this radiant globe is cognizable to man as the sun. The large light and a dark section represents the created universes partaking of the light and darkness which are in the nature of the Creator. The dark half represents the Deep, or Chaos, the Eternal Waters pouring forth out of the Deity; the light half-circle containing the figure of Apollo represents the diurnal hemisphere of the world, which in the ancient Mysteries was ruled over by Apollo. The dark half-circle is the nocturnal hemisphere ruled over by Dionysius (Dionysos), whose figure is faintly visible in the gloom.

(44) But the Light of the Meekness of the Sun qualifies, mixes, or unites with the pure Deity; but the Heat cannot comprehend the Light, and therefore also the Place of the Sun remains in the Body of God's Wrath, and thou must not worship, pray to or honour the Sun as God, for its Place or Body cannot apprehend the Water of Life, because of its Fierceness. The highest Ground of the SUN, and of ALL the PLANETS. And