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The second day began.* The Elohim called to consciousness; they called forth; memories of their actions (we do the same: as we awake, we remember the labor of yester day). Saturn arose: "In the Beginning there was Memory." The Primal Beginnings rose. And -- the New was consummated:-- |
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-- the Cherubim turned their gifts into the heat of life of the Thrones; and new thoughts, inplanted into the warmth, came to fruition in the warmth as Archangels; they altered the warmth, condensing it and refining it; two woven fabrics were woven for the Elohim: the fabric of light and the fiery fabric; like smoke this fabric shut out the pure light; thus arose "Light-fire." The second day, a light-fiery one -- the Sun -- shone; being refined, as the Light, and being condensed into fire-airs; there lived the germinal beginnings of the plants which had descended to the Sun. |
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The life of the Archangels, extended from the light to the stand of the Thrones in those places, where now there is -- the Zodiac. And the Thrones fastened their wordless gaze; and through their eyes they poured out onto the Sun the sacred and a blessing. |
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And the second day ended. |