Antroposophia theomagica, das ist, eine Rede von der Natur des Menschen

...regarding the third Person The Holy Spirit, there was nonetheless no light present; instead, darkness was upon the face of the deep, because enlightenment is properly the office of the second Person.

Therefore, after the matter original: materia was prepared by Love to be capable of receiving light, God uttered His Word: "Let there be light." This was not a new creation original: Schöpffung, as most people believe, but rather an outflowing of the Word—the same Word in which the life that is the light of mankind was found. This is the light of which St. John speaks: "that it shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not comprehend it."

But so that I do not appear to be making some strange claim in this matter, I will explain it to you further. Pimander The "Divine Mind" or teacher in the Hermetica, who instructed Trismegistus Hermes Trismegistus, a legendary Hellenistic figure associated with ancient wisdom in the work of creation, teaches him the very same thing: "I am that light, the Mind, your God, older than the moist nature that shone forth from the shadows" original Latin: Lumen illud ego sum, mens, Deus tuus, antiquior quam natura humida, quae ex umbra effulfit.

And Georgius Venetus Francesco Giorgio (1466–1540), a Franciscan friar and author of De Harmonia Mundi says in his book On the Harmony of the World:

"Everything that lives, lives because of the heat enclosed within it. From this, it is concluded that the nature of heat possesses a vital power within itself, diffused everywhere in the world. Indeed, Zoroaster An ancient Persian prophet and philosopher testifies that all things were made from fire when he says: 'All things were brought forth under one fire.' Specifically, that fire which God—the Inhabitant of the fiery Essence, as Plato says—commanded to be within the matter of heaven and earth already created, though raw and formless, so that it might provide life and form. Hence, once these things were produced, the Creator original Latin: Opifex immediately added: 'Light is made' original Latin: fit Lux. For this, the faulty translation has 'Let there be light' original Latin: fiat lux. For it was not..."