_I. The Seven Heavens_


As to the Seven Heavens that are around the earth, the first of them
is the bright cloudy heaven that is the nearest and that has shining
out of it the moon and the scattering of stars. Beyond that are two
flaming heavens, angels are in them and the breaking loose of winds.
Beyond those an ice-cold heaven, bluer than any blue, seven times
colder than any snow, and it is out of that comes the shining of the
sun. Two heavens there are above that again, bright like flame, and
it is out of them shine the fiery stars that put fruitfulness in the
clouds and in the sea. A high heaven, high and fiery, there is above
all the rest; highest of all it is, having within it the rolling of
the skies, and the labour of music, and quires of angels. In the belts,
now, of the seven heavens are hidden the twelve shaking beasts that
have fiery heads upon their heavenly bodies and that are blowing twelve
winds about the world.

In the same belts are sleeping the dragons with fiery breath, tower-
headed, blemished, that give out the crash of the thunders and blow
lightnings out of their eyes.



_II. The Journey of the Sun_


God made on the fourth day the two and seventy kinds of the wandering
stars of heaven, and the fiery course of the sun that warms the world