Book, Chapter

 1      11, III   |          nothing; it was a certain formlessness without any shape.~
 2      11, IV    |            What, then, should that formlessness be called so that somehow
 3      11, IV    |            world nearer to a total formlessness than the earth and the abyss?
 4      11, IV    |         why may I not consider the formlessness of matter - which thou didst
 5      11, VIII  |        unformed earth, out of this formlessness which is almost nothing,
 6      11, XI    |           do not know what kind of formlessness there is in these mutations
 7      11, XI    |           diminished and consumed, formlessness alone would remain, through
 8      11, XI    |        into another, so that sheer formlessness would then be characterized
 9      11, XII   |         abyss.” By these words its formlessness is indicated to us - so
10      11, XII   |     arriving at nothing. From this formlessness a second heaven might be
11      11, XVII  |         one should say, “This same formlessness and chaos of matter was
12      11, XIX   |       process. It is true that the formlessness which is almost nothing
13      11, XIX   |            made from it. Thus that formlessness of which heaven and earth
14      11, XXI   |   Scripture does not refer to that formlessness by the term ‘heaven and
15      11, XXI   |            heaven and earth’; that formlessness itself already existed.
16      11, XXII  |           will not admit that this formlessness of matter appears to be
17      11, XXII  |    specifically that God made this formlessness - any more than it has said
18      11, XXII  |       written that out of the same formlessness the firmament was made and
19      11, XXIX  |       earth were made. This primal formlessness was not made first in time,
20      12, III   | enlightened. For neither could its formlessness please thee until it became
21      12, XXXIII|           that thou didst form its formlessness, without any interval of