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Stanza III. ... The last vibration of the seventh eternity thrills through infinitude. ... The vibration sweeps along, touching with its swift wing the whole universe and the germ that dwelleth in darkness, the darkness that breathes over the slumbering waters of life ... ... The root of life was in every drop of the ocean of immortality, and the ocean was radiant light, which was fire, and heat, and motion. Darkness vanished and was no more ... ... Behold ... bright space, son of dark space ... He shines forth as the sun; he is the blazing divine dragon of wisdom. ... Where was the germ, and where now was the darkness? ... Stanza IV. ... Listen, ye sons of the earth, to your instructors, the sons of fire ... ... Learn what we, who descend from the primordial seven, we, who are born from the primordial ... From the effulgency of light—the ray of the ever-darkness—sprang in space the re-awakened energies ... And from the divine man emanated the forms, the sparks, the sacred animals, and the Stanza V. ... The first seven breaths of the dragon of wisdom produce in their turn from their holy circumgyrating breaths, the fiery whirlwind. ... The swift son of the divine sons ... runs circular errands ... He passes like lightning through the fiery clouds ... ... He is their guiding spirit and leader. When he commences work, he separates the sparks of the lower kingdom, that float and thrill with joy in their radiant dwellings ... Stanza VI. ... He builds them in the likeness of older wheels, placing them on the imperishable centres ... ... How were they built by Fohat? He collects the fiery dust. He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them infusing life thereinto, then sets them into motion ... They are cold, he makes them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist. They shine, he fans and cools them. Thus acts Fohat from one twilight to the other, during seven eternities. ... The mother's spawn filled the whole. There were battles fought between the creator and the destroyers, and battles fought for space. Stanza VII. of the world ...? ... The hour had not yet struck; the ray had not yet flashed into the germ ... ... The germ is that and that is light, the white brilliant son of the dark hidden father. flame, have learnt from our fathers. messengers of the sacred fathers ... ... The swift and radiant one ... seats the universe on the eternal foundations ...