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J. Maggard, Cosmic Wave

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Primeval Waters

“Moses teaches us in chapter 1 of Genesis, when he describes the creation of the whole world, or of our solar system, that the Almighty God created in the beginning shamayim v’et haarets, that is, the heavens or primeval waters, and the earth. Here Moses puts the heavens, the spiritual fiery water, first, and he does so not without a very special reason; for they are the beginning of all things first created by the Lord God, or the beginning of beginnings, which is almost unfathomable for us in its true nature, as its wondrous name lets us sufficiently recognize; for Moses, or rather the Holy Ghost through Moses, calls this extension shamayim, which is a composite name that has been described by the rabbinical elders, who were trained and experienced in the true Kabbalah, as being composed of esh and mayim, fire and water.

This is in truth, according to the outer letter, a very wonderful and strange mixture, and how is it possible to mix two such quite opposite things so harmoniously? Which, however, is an eternal truth; only that this fiery water, or watery fire, without which no creature can live and be maintained, is sought by so few in order to know it. To describe it in its whole sphaera is just not our purpose; besides, a more experienced pen is probably required for such Divine Secrets as ours. . .”