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| Of the Intellectual Heaven and Formless Earth, Out of Which, on Another Day, the Firmament Was Formed.
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Chapter XIII.—Of the Intellectual
Heaven and Formless Earth, Out of Which, on Another Day, the
Firmament Was Formed.
16. Meanwhile I conceive this, O my God, when I hear
Thy Scripture speak, saying, In the beginning God made heaven and
earth; but the
earth was invisible and without form, and darkness was upon the
deep, and not stating on what day Thou didst create these things.
Thus, meanwhile, do I conceive, that it is on account of that
heaven of heavens, that intellectual heaven, where to understand is
to know all at once,—not “in part,” not “darkly,” not
“through a glass,”1102
but as a whole, in manifestation,
“face to face;” not this thing now, that anon, but (as has been
said) to know at once without any change of times; and on account
of the invisible and formless earth, without any change of times;
which change is wont to have “this thing now, that anon,”
because, where there is no form there can be no distinction between
“this” or “that;”—it is, then, on account of these
two,—a primitively formed, and a wholly formless; the one heaven,
but the heaven of heavens, the other earth, but the earth invisible
and formless;—on account of these two do I meanwhile conceive
that Thy Scripture said without mention of days, “In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” For immediately
it added of what earth it spake. And when on the second day the
firmament is recorded to have been created, and called heaven, it
suggests to us of which heaven He spake before without mention of
days.
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