(128) Moses writes very right, that Man was created out of the Earth; but at that Time, when the Mass was held by the Word, then the Mass was not Earth. But if it. had not been held or kept by the Word, then at that very Hour it had become black Earth, but the old Wrath-fire was in it already.

(122) The dear Man Moses writes, That God made Man out of a Clod of Earth, as the Learned have rendered it. But Moses was not present when it was done.

(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:]

(127) The holy Man Moses was so high and deep in this Light, that the Light glorified, clarified, or brightened the astral Birth also, whereby the outermost Birth of the Flesh in his Face was clarified, brightened, or glorified; and he also desired to see the Light of God perfectly in the astral Birth or Geniture.