The need of the sun for influencing the principle

of life in us and for adorning our heaven

But just as the highest heaven does not flow solely by itself, preserving the world and flowing with ministries through the virtue of the sun and other stars, so let it will, according to that which the grace of God wishes to bestow, an immutable, splendid, and incorruptible sun. It declares a sun in which the vices of time cannot act, from which or as it itself overcomes it. And I speak with such sincerity, not feigned and in good grace, because that sun, illuminated and splendid and incorruptible, remains without [corruption], which influences the matter where and [by means] of the rays before the sun, of which it is possible, as I explained above, in its body which was created for the ornament of our heaven and for increasing the influence of the grace of God, which can be taken by hand and consists of two things by the impression of light. For thus it is, inasmuch as the cause, then we say, that you may become a reader of the work and you will read [it] to all, when the intelligible [thing] prepared for you I will reveal. And the answer is gold of the true mineral, collected from these flowing [things], because alchemical gold, which is from the corrosives of time, would destroy nature; and contrary to the apostle, the gold of God, the sun which is the son of the sun of heaven, is generated not from the influence of the sun.