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THe glory of all things, God, and that which is Divine, and the Divine Nature, the be∣ginning of things that are.
2. God and the Minde, and Nature, and Matter, and Ope∣ration, or Working, and Neces∣sity, and the End, and Renova∣tion.
3. For there were in the Chaos, an infinite darknesse in the Abyss or bottomless Depth, and Water, and a subtile Spirit intelligible in Power; and there went out the Holy Light, and
the Elements were coagulated from the Sand out of the moist Substance.
4. And all the Gods distin∣guisted the Nature ful of Seeds.
5, And when all things were interminated and unmade up, the light things were divided on high. And the heavie things were founded upon the moist Sand, all things being Termina∣ted or Divided by Fire; and be∣ing sustained or hung up by the Spirit, they were so carried, and the Heaven was seen in Seven Circles.
6. And the Gods were seen in their Ideas of their Stars, with all their Signes, and the Stars were numbered with the Gods in them. And the Sphere was all lined with Air, carried about in a circular motion by the Spirit of God.
7. And every God by his in∣ternal
power did that which was commanded him; and there were made four-footed things, and creeping things and such as live in the Water, and such as flie, and every fruitfull Seed, and Grasse, and the Flowers of all Greens, all which had sowed in themselves the Seeds of Rege∣neration.
8. As also the Generations of men, to the knowledge of the Divine Works, and a lively or working Testimony of Nature, and a multitude of men, and the Dominion of all things under Heaven, and the knowledge of good things, and to be increased in increasing, and multiplied in multitude.
9. And every Soul in Flesh, by the wonderfull working of the Gods in the Circles, to the beholding of Heaven, the Gods,
Divine Works, and the Opera∣tions of Nature; and for Signes of good things, and the know∣ledge of the Divine Power, and to finde out every cunning workmanship of good things.
10. So it beginneth to live in them, and to be wise according to the Operation of the course of the circular Gods & to be re∣solved into that which shall be great Monuments, and Remem∣berances of the cunning Works done upon Earth, leaving them to be read by the darknesse of times.
11. And every Generation of living Flesh of Fruit, Seed, and all Handicrafts, though they be lost, must of necessity be renew∣ed by the renovation of the Gods, and of the Nature of a Circle moving in number; for it is a Divine thing, that every
worldly temperature should be renewed by Nature; for in that which is Divine, is Nature also established.