Book III. Ttje Temple oj mfaome, I p I

Monad of the PaJJjve andA^iive Frinci^le in the Creation ofihk Mtcrocofm,
T^bert are many vporlds ^ as I fhall demonflrate by the known Phdnomena of Nature : 1 fliall alfo declare unto you how God orders a real material Earth , when once it is made^ to make it pleafant and delightful for both man and beaft : for the Stars and Planets belong to number 3 and as a primary Planet in refpeft of its refle- ftion of Light is rightly called a Planet , fo in refpeft of its habitablenefs it is rightly termed an Earth, Thefe Earths therefore God orders in fuch fort ^ that they nei- ther want r^ater to lie upon them , nor hi covered over with neater J though they be environed round about with the fluid Air.
That vaft and iT.menfe Etherial Matter , which is call- ed the Fluid Heaven or Etherial moifture , with infinite numbers of fundry forts of Lights, which Gods Wifdome and Power^by union of fit and aftive Principles drawn of the World of Life, made of this Etherial Matter, whofe ufefulnefs is plain in Nature , that they are for Pr ogno- flick fignes and feafons, and days and years.
God made the Pla?iets partly Land, and partly Sea, Rivers and Springs, whofe convenience is obvious for e- very man to conceive.
And God placed all thefe forts of Lights in the thin . and liquid Heaven or Etherial Kegign^ that they might refleft their rays one upon another, and (hine upon the Inhabitants of the trpelve Earths,
And that their bounty and refplendency might b« confplcuous to the beholders of them, whether by day or by nightjwhich is mainly to be underftood of the Sun$ that fupply alfo the place of Stars at afar diftance, but whofe chief office is to make viciffitude of day and nighty and the Univerlal darl{Ether,
Qod Created maii^ as yoii have heard, of a certairi
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Red Clay, purified by a fiipernatural Agents dnftiired alfb with the Etherial firfi moifture^ and in Gods own Image ; he confifting of an Intelleftual Soul, and a Ter- reftrial Bodyaftuated thereby : Wherefore mankind became Male and Female, as other Terreftriai Animals are.
Now Tlants and Animals were the Generations effects and produftions of Earth 5 the feminai forms znd fouls of Animals infinuating themfelves into the prepared matter thereof: And 5^72/, Planets or Earths^ were the Generations or Productions of the Heavens^ as you may fee in this Temple : There is a God that Reigns and Rules the World, and Created all the Inh a- bitants of the Earth 5 that he is moft Potent, Wife and Provident ; that he is a Rewarder, Revenger : That hisj Son fuffered upon the Crofs for us, and that he fuf- fered not in the fiefh for them as he did for us : How htf fuffered for the Kevolted Angels in their Region, you may finde in the Temple 5 That he is to be adored in three Perfons, and in one Power, and that a God.
And there went up a moift vapour from the Earths^ which being matur'dand concofted by the Angel of the Worldy which is very aftive in the Heavens or Air, be-i came a pretious Balmy Liquor, znd iit Vehicle of life ^ which defcending down in fome fore like dewy fhowres upon the Earth, moiftned their habitations 3 fo that the warmth of the Suns gently playing and cooHng accor- ding to Nature, upon the furfaces thereof, prepared matter varioufly for fundry (brts of Inhabitants , not onely in the Etherial Kegion, birtinthe feveral Earths: andlaftly in this, not onely of feminai forms of Planets^ but fouls oiAfiimaIs^d\fo.
And man himfelfrofe out of the Earth after thU manner 3 the Ked Earth mth Etherial m:^i\}ttrc^ being rightly prepared and attempeied by thefe uhftuous
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