Chapter VIII.—Further Progression of This Threefold Emanation; Co-Existence with the Double Triad of a Seventh Existence.

And of those six powers,604    These powers are thus arranged:   1. Mind and Intelligence: termed also,—1. Heaven and Earth.   2. Voice and Name: termed also,—2. Sun and Moon.   3. Ratiocination and Reflection:  termed also,—3. Air and Water. and of the seventh which co-exists with them, the first pair, Mind and Intelligence, he calls Heaven and Earth. And that one of these, being of male sex, beholds from above and takes care of his partner, but that the earth receives below the rational fruits, akin to the earth, which are borne down from the heaven. On this account, he says, the Logos, frequently looking towards the things that are being generated from Mind and Intelligence, that is, from Heaven and Earth, exclaims, “Hear, O heaven, and give ear, O earth, because the Lord has spoken. I have brought forth children, and exalted them; and these have rejected me.”  Now, he who utters these words, he says, is the seventh power—he who stood, stands, and will stand; for he himself is cause of those beauteous objects of creation which Moses commended, and said that they were very good. But Voice and Name (the second of the three pairs) are Sun and Moon; and Ratiocination and Reflection (the third of the three pairs) are Air and Water. And in all these is intermingled and blended, as I have declared, the great, the indefinite, the (self-) existing power.

[13] Τῶν δὲ ἓξ δυνάμεων τούτων καὶ τῆς ἑβδόμης τῆς μετὰ τῶν ἓξ καλεῖ τὴν πρώτην συζυγίαν, Νοῦν καὶ Ἐπίνοιαν, οὐρανὸν καὶ γῆν: καὶ τὸν μὲν ἄρσενα ἄνωθεν ἐπιβλέπειν καὶ προνοεῖν τῆς συζύγου, τὴν δὲ γῆν ὑποδέχεσθαι κάτω τοὺς ἀπὸ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καταφερομένους τῇ γῇ συγγενεῖς νοεροὺς καρπούς. διὰ τοῦτο, φησίν, ἀποβλέπων πολλάκις ὁ λόγος πρὸς τὰ ἐκ Νοὸς καὶ Ἐπινοίας γεγεννημένα_τουτέστιν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς_λέγει: «ἄκουε, οὐρανέ, καὶ ἐνωτίζου, γῆ, ὅτι κ(ύριος) ἐλάλησεν: υἱοὺς ἐγέννησα καὶ ὕψωσα, αὐτοὶ δέ με ἠθέτησαν». ὁ δὲ λέγων ταῦτα, φησίν, ἡ ἑβδόμη δύναμίς ἐστιν, [ὁ] ἑστὼς στὰς στησόμενος: αὐτὸς γὰρ αἴτιος τούτων τῶν καλῶν ὧν ἐπῄνεσε Μωσῆς καὶ εἶπε «καλὰ λίαν». ἡ δὲ Φωνὴ καὶ τὸ Ὄνομα ἥλιος καὶ σελήνη, ὁ δὲ Λογισμὸς καὶ ἡ Ἐνθύμησις ἀὴρ καὶ ὕδωρ. ἐν δὲ τούτοις ἅπασιν ἐμμέμικται καὶ κέκραται, ὡς ἔφην, ἡ μεγάλη δύναμις, ἡ ἀπέραντος, ὁ ἑστώς.