PHIL. IUD. DE ABRAHAMO. §. 15. 16.

But investigating the order in them, according to the cycles of the sun and moon and the other planets and fixed stars, and according to the changes of the annual seasons, and according to the sympathy of heavenly things with earthly ones, they supposed the world itself to be God, not piously likening the created thing to the Creator. Someone who had been brought up with this opinion, and having "Chaldaeanized" for a long time, as if opening the eye of the soul from a deep sleep, and beginning to see a pure light instead of deep darkness, followed the light and beheld what he had not previously seen: a certain charioteer and governor of the world standing over it, and directing his own work with salvation, and taking care of and protecting those parts within it that are worthy of divine concern. And so that he might strengthen the vision that had appeared more firmly in his mind, the sacred word says to him: "Great things, O man, are often known by the sketching of smaller ones, looking at which one has increased the imagination to boundless magnitudes." Having therefore dismissed those who circle in heaven and the Chaldaean science, migrate for a short time from the greatest city, this world, to a smaller one; for you will be able to grasp the overseer of the all more fully. For this reason, it is said that he made the first migration from the land of the Chaldaeans to the land of the Charrhaeans.

§. 16. Charran Haran is interpreted in Greek as "caves," symbolizing the regions of our senses, through which, as if through apertures, each is naturally inclined to look out toward the perception of its own objects.