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 1  Text    |       are visible . . . Now the Fire devoured the Water and the
 2  Text    |         it is everything, so in Fire everything (becomes) nothing,
 3  Text    |   therefore also the flame of a fire [that] has gone out or Water
 4  Text    |         and how does Water love Fire that absorbs it, or Fire
 5  Text    |        Fire that absorbs it, or Fire Water that quenches it?
 6  Text    |        quenches it? And how did Fire love Light? How, pray, will
 7  Text    |       be benefited by it ? For 'Fire loved Fire, and Wind Wind,
 8  Text    |         by it ? For 'Fire loved Fire, and Wind Wind, and Water
 9  Text    |   drowns the righteous, nor the Fire which burns the humble!
10  Text    |      pleased with it.'~ ~And if Fire was mixed with Fire, and
11  Text    |      And if Fire was mixed with Fire, and Water with Water and
12  Text    |     another quarter, in that if Fire has been mixed with Fire,
13  Text    |        Fire has been mixed with Fire, when pray are they being
14  Text    |     also be recognised, in that Fire had become dimmer than it
15  Text    |         not perceived that this Fire after a hundred years is
16  Text    |    hurled it and cast it on the Fire it did not make it go down
17  Text    |      middle ; for it turned the Fire to the South, and took it
18  Text(11)|    terminology, the fro&nhma of Fire, viz. 'to kindle,' is essentially
19  Text    | prevented it from impelling the Fire to go down alongside of
20  Text    |    reason of creative power the Fire acquired brightness and
21  Text    |       of itself to blow and the Fire to [glow] and the Darkness
22  Text    |    smoke, and the Light and the Fire and the Wind . . ~[l. 12.]
23  Text    |     true (constitution) of this Fire is not of that which Bardaisan
24  Text    |       and let us see if it (the Fire) kindles Wind like chips
25  Text    |         dissolved one by one by Fire from the bond of their nature ;
26  Text    |      God, not even as heat from Fire. For if it were so, it would
27  Text    |   necessary that as the heat of Fire is like itself and is not
28  Text    |         the Light is white, the Fire is red, the Wind is blue,
29  Text    |        and what is the smell of Fire, that thou mayest know that
30  Text    |      its boundary ; and because Fire also is lighter than Water,
31  Text    |       Wind also is lighter than Fire it is clear that it too
32  Text    |        that it too is above the Fire ; and because Light is lighter
33  Text    |    between the Darkness and the Fire, the one cold underneath
34  Text    |       For if the Wind smote the Fire which was underneath it
35  Text    |      and bent it downwards, the Fire did not reach to the Darkness,
36  Text    |     true to their names, if the Fire is a Fire in truth, and
37  Text    |         names, if the Fire is a Fire in truth, and not an idle
38  Text    |      And if the opposite to the Fire [P. 226.] was the Water,
39  Text    |         then it did not let the Fire approach the Darkness. And
40  Text    |    completely the Water and the Fire and the Wind, and was 'the
41  Text    |    Light and Wind and Water and Fire . . . that knowledge is
42  Text    |        Light and to Wind and to Fire and to Water and to Darkness ?
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