Doğanın Şikâyeti: Tabiat'ın İtirafı

That God in whom all goodness abounds, when He composed this world, of which He carried in His thought the beautiful, premeditated form always in everlastingness before it had existed outwardly; for there He took His model and that which was necessary to Him. For if He had wished to seek it elsewhere, He would have found neither heaven nor earth, nor anything with which He could help Himself, as He held nothing outside of Himself; for out of nothing He made everything arise, He to whom nothing can be lacking. It was, in the beginning, one mass only, which was all in confusion, without order and without division; then He divided it into parts, which since then have not been separated, and He summed the whole by number, and well He knows what the sum is; for by reasonable measures He determined all their shapes. The light things flew up high, and the heavy things descended to the earth, and the middling things in the middle; thus was their place ordained by right compass and right space.