Musevi Felsefe: Nurun Karanlıktan Doğuşu

Here, God (who is light in whom there are no shadows) reveals himself from the darkness: and this emanation is called by the wise, the Brightness of eternal light and a certain unspotted emanation of the glory of the almighty God, which by its splendor is more precious than the sun itself and is found prior to every disposition of the stars compared to light: In this state, it is accepted for the divine essence or act through itself, that is, without any mixture with mundane matter. The darkness has now passed, and the true light illuminating all things now shines: In this luminous word was the life of all things. This made all things, stretched out the heavens alone, established the earth, and with him there was no one. Where from the darkness or divine power and light or divine act, the unique world is forged to the image of the divine monad: For out of the immense abyss of darkness there issued waters, according to that of Hermes: Infinite shadow in the abyss, but water and his Spirit were in the abyss, but the holy splendor flourished, from which water the existence of the world has risen. Whence the sacred text: The hand of the Almighty created the world from formless matter. And Moses: The Spirit of God moved upon the waters.