_Mich._ But see, "the Spirit of God outspread, and vital virtue infused, and vital warmth throughout the fluid mass. Like things to like! The rest to several place disparted." And in the air, "the Earth, self-balanced, on her centre hangs." _Elo._ "Let there be light." _Jesus._ "Hail! Holy light. Offspring of Heaven, first born." _Elo._ The light is good. Let darkness flee into the shades of night, and light make up the day. _Mich._ Hark! "the celestial choirs, when orient light, exhaling first from darkness, they behold,--birthday of Heaven and Earth; with joy and shout, the hollow, universal orb they fill." _Elo._ "Let there be a firmament amid the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." _Jeh._ "Behold the firmament,--expanse of liquid, pure, transparent, elemental air, diffused in circuit to the uttermost convex; partition firm and sure, the waters underneath from those above dividing." _Jesus._ The water still doth compass all the Earth, moulding the plastic mass, and doth implant, within her genial breast, the seeds of various life. _Elo._ "Be gathered, now, ye waters under Heaven, into one place, and let dry land appear." Land, freed from your prison-house, arise, and be called Earth. Ye waters,--seas. Now "let the Earth put forth the verdant grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree yielding fruit after her kind, whose seed is in herself, upon the Earth." _Mich._ Oh, sight sublime! The Earth, till now, barren and fruitless was; "her universal face" now clothed in "pleasant green." Listen, ye Gods! The morning stars, which in the vast expanse of Heaven, circle their rounds, together sing. The sons of God, swift-winged angels, shout for joy. _Elo._ "Let there be lights, high in the expanse of Heaven, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, for seasons and for days, and circling years; and let them be for lights, as I ordain their office, in the firmament of Heaven, to give light on the Earth." "Two great lights,--great for their use to man,--the greater to have rule by day, the less by night; the stars I also set in the high firmament, to illuminate the Earth, and rule the day in their vicissitude, and rule the night, and light from darkness to divide." _Jeh._ Behold, "the thousand, thousand stars, that now appear, spangling the hemisphere," the luminaries bright, that rise and set, and crown the glory of the fourth new day. _Elo._ "Let the waters generate reptile, with spawn abundant; living soul; and let fowl fly above the Earth, with wings displayed, on the open firmament of Heaven, and the great whales, and each soul living, each that creeps, and in the waters generate, and each bird of its kind,--let each be blessed;" "be fruitful, multiply, and in the seas and lakes, and running streams, the waters fill: and let the fowl be multiplied." _Jesus._ Let Heaven rejoice, let Earth be glad, and hail the dawning of the fifth new day.