(166) II. The Elements signify or denote the wonderful Proportion, Variety, Change and Alteration of the Form and Position of Heaven: For as the Deep between the Stars and Earth always alter and change in their Form, suddenly it is Fair, Bright and Light, suddenly it is Lowery and Dark, now Wind, then Rain, now Snow, suddenly the Deep is Blue or Azure, suddenly Greenish, by and by Whitish, then suddenly again Dusky.

(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.

(68) Consider this Similitude: Out of the Sun and Stars go forth the Elements, and they make in the Salitter of the Earth a living Spirit, and the Stars remain in their Circle or Sphere, and that Spirit likewise gets the Quality of the Stars.

(46) For Nature would willingly be delivered from this Vanity, that it might procreate heavenly Forms in the holy Power.

(25) And by this now, in the Creation of this World, the Stars and the Elements, as also the Creatures, tremble and burn, out of which exits also the House of Death and of Hell, also eternal, base, loathsome Habitation for the Kingdom of Lucifer, and for all wicked Men. This Quality generates,

(74) in the Deep the Power of all Stars, together with the Heat and Lustre of the Sun, are all but one Thing, a moving boiling Hovering, like a Spirit or Matter; only it has not Reason, for it is not the Holy Spirit. And thus also the fourth Element must adhere or belong to a natural Spirit, or it is not capable of Reason. ["And thus God the Father goes forth in his Deep out of all his Powers, and generates the Splendor, the Heart, or the Son of God in his Center."]