#2 Sailing the Glassy Sea
Pryr-1.1-9] "Now Adam , I will open your eyes to a great Mystery. The heavenly Materiality of the Angels' Kingdom before their Revolt was a glassy Sea, a Mirror of beauteous Forms, Figures, Virtues, Powers, Colors, and Sounds , which were perpetually springing up, appearing and changing in an infinite Variety , to the Manifestation of the Wonders of the Divine Nature, and to the Joy of all the Angelical Kingdom. This heavenly Materiality had its Fruits and Vegetables, more real than any that grow in Time, but different from the Grossness of the Fruits of this World, as the heavenly Body of an Angel is different from the Body of the grossest Beast upon Earth . In this angelical Kingdom, there was just one Element (which after the Fall was divided into in four Parts) and that was a fruitful Mother of Wonders, continually bringing forth new Forms and Figures of Life; not Animals , Beasts, or Insects, but beautiful Figures: ideal Forms of the endless Divisibility, and ...