Three Principles of the Divine Essence Chap. 8-16 - meuser

Matrix. For the fifth Essence was not yet created in the Matrix,
nor separated till the fourth Day, when God created the Sun and
Stars out of it, and separated the Light from the Darkness;
where then the Light got the Virtue of the Glance, or Splendor,
into itself for its own, and the Root of the Fire in the Center
remained hidden in the Darkness.
8. On the second Day, God created the Firmament of the
Heaven, viz. the strong Inclosure, [Fence, or Stop] to the Darkness
of the original Matrix, that it might no more kindle itself,
and generate Earth and Stones. And therefore he made the Inclosure
or Firmament out of the Midst of the Waters, which
stays the Might [Force, or Power] of the Fire, and became the
visible Heaven, whence the Creatures are proceeded, from whence
now the Elements, Fire, Air, and Water proceed.
9. The third Day God, by the Fiat, divided the Waters upon
the Earth, and created them for several Places, that there might
be a Dwelling upon the Earth, and so the Earth became dry.
Now when this was done, then God did seek the Creature, and
the Eternal Father said, (that is, he wrought through the Son,
who is his Heart and Glance,) [or Luster,] in the Fiat, in the
Earth; and there budded the Life through Death, and Grass,
Herbs, and all Manner of Trees and Plants sprung up, every one
according to the eternal h Source, as it had been before. Thus
every Essence became visible, and God manifested his manifold
Virtue with the manifold Herbs, Plants, and Trees, so that every
one that does but look upon them, may see the eternal Power,
Virtue, and Wisdom of God therein; if he be born of God, he
may know in every Spire of Grass, his Creator in whom he lives.
Thus in this Time sprung up all that grew [or was] in the
Earth.
i If Men would not be blind, they might here see the Mystery of
the Man Christ’s remaining in Death till the third Day, and
his bringing of Life out of the Earth.
h Fountain.
i This was found written in the the manuscript Copy apart by itself, so that it is not known whether it be
the Author’s or no.
10. And the Matrix of the Earth stood still till the third Day, as
it were in Death, in respect of the great Storm: But in the Fiat
the Life sprung up through Death, and the eternal Virtue [or
Power] and Wisdom of God (which has formed itself together
in the Fiat) discovered itself on the blossoming Earth, where the
Similitude of the paradisical World may be clearly seen.
11. For although many thousand several Herbs stand one by
another in one and the same Meadow, and one of them is fairer
and has more Virtue than another, yet one of them does not