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ceases. Creation is a constant analysis of the aether, of 

 air, and finally, of water. 



312. The element that is correspondent to gravity 

 necessarily occupies the centre upon the planet. It is 

 surrounded by the element corresponding to light, the 

 water, like the centre is by the radii ; both are enveloped 

 by the heat-element or air, which forms the periphery of 

 the globe, the integument of the planet. 



313. The forms of the elements are the following; 

 water is spherical in its greatest as well as least parts ; 

 for it is the point merging out of itself, and can there- 

 fore nowhere acquire form. The earth is everywhere 

 nothing but point ; it is therefore concrete, and every 

 part self-subsistent or individual, while in water no part 

 subsists for itself, but at every opportunity is confluent 

 with the other, and therefore arrives nowhere at indivi- 

 duality. Finally, air is the eternal flight of the smallest 

 parts to the periphery. In the earth the Finite or Singu- 

 lar is for itself ; in the water it is so only through the 

 Whole ; in the air it is not indeed for itself, but is there 

 only the Whole without individualized parts. 



314. The world is twofold, an setherial and a terres- 

 trial ; both are transcripts or copies of each other, and 

 both ultimately of God. The terrestrial world has ori- 

 ginated out of the sether; it is therefore further re- 

 moved from God than the sether ; this is the discharged, 

 purified Terrestrial. 



315. God is a threefold Trinity; at first the Eternal, 

 then the ^Etherial, and finally the Terrestrial, where it is 

 completely divided. 



316. The holy primary number is 3 ; the second is 9. 

 The sether is I in 3 ; the other elements are simply the 

 3 of the sether, together 4. 2 x 3, however, or 6, lies at 

 the bottom of this 4. The symbolic numbers are conse- 

 quently 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, which fundamentally are one and 

 the same, but in different combinations. With this, 

 however, all formation does not yet terminate ; to the 4 

 elements is added the vegetable and animal kingdom. 

 The number of the days of creation is 6. 



