The Bible

Genesis 1:16

¹⁶ And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Commentary

Creation

Nicknamed 'God the Geometer,' this artwork shows God using geometric principles in creating the earth. It is the Frontispiece of Bible Moralisee, in the Codex Vindobonensis 2554 (French, ca. 1250), in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.

The creation of heaven and earth in the first chapter of Genesis represents the new creation of the celestial church called 'Man'.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 9336, Genesis 1)

The Bible

Job 12:7-9

⁷ "But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

⁸ Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

⁹ Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this,