The Summary of Physics Restored

2Many of the wise have held that the world was delineated from eternity in its archetype. That archetype, being wholly light, was folded within itself like a book before the creation of the universe and shone for itself alone. In producing the world, however, it opened and unfolded itself as though giving birth. Through a certain extension of itself it made manifest its work, previously hidden in the mind as in a womb, and brought the ideal world into actual, material existence, as though the image of divinity had been doubled. Trismegistus intimates this when he relates that God changed his form and that all things were suddenly revealed and turned into light. For the world is nothing other than the manifest image of hidden divinity. The ancients seem to have understood this birth of the universe through their Pallas, drawn from Jupiter's brain with the aid of Vulcan, that is, divine fire or light.