About This Book
The text offers a visionary cosmogony in which an eternal creator brings time and ordered worlds out of primordial light, water, and darkness; opposing personified forces of light and darkness become Jehovah and Satan. Divine electricity fashions minerals and dry land, and souls are formed and later given bodies to populate heaven and earth. Jehovah establishes a luminous temple and throne that sustain creation and shields life with righteousness, while Satan's envy gradually corrupts many souls until a celestial rebellion and a decree to expel the wicked. Interwoven are hymnic passages and poems that amplify themes of creation, fall, divine justice, and the struggle between radiance and shadow.
About the Author
You May Also Like
6 picks
Fairy dreams
by Jane G. Austin
The Roman and the Teuton / A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge
by Charles Kingsley
Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Five Plays
by Lord Dunsany
The Seventy's Course in Theology, Third Year / The Doctrine of Deity
by B. H. Roberts
The influence of the stars
by Rosa Baughan