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air perpetuel ne vivre ne demourer tant comme
nous aions corps mortel. Comment les .iiii.elemens sont
Celle clarte dont nous vous avons assiz
parle qui air espirituel est appelle. et
ou les angeles prendent leur atourne
ment environne alentour du monde les quatre
elemens que dieu crea et assist lun dedens laultre
Dont lun est le feu. le second est lair. le tiers est
leau. et le quart est la terre. Dont lun se serre
en laultre. et laultre soustient en telle manie
re que la terre se tient ou milieu. Le feu qui enclost
premierement cest air ou nous sommes. et celui air
enclost leaue apres laquelle se tient alentour de la
terre. Tout pareillement comme len voit del oeuf
que la[n?]bu[n?] enclost le myoeul et ou milieu du my
oeul a aussi comme une goute de gresse qui ne se
tient de nulle part. Et la gresse qui la se tient ny
touche de nulle part. Par tel et pareil regard est
la terre assise ou milieu du ciel tant et si egalement
que autant est elle loings du ciel par hault que
par bas. ainsi comme vous povez veoir le point

perpetual air, nor live, nor remain there, so long
as we have a mortal body. [rubric:] How the four elements are
This clarity that we have spoken to you about, // placed
which is called the spiritual air, where the angels
have their abode, encircles the world with the four
elements that God created and placed one inside the other.
Of these, the first is fire, the second is air, the third is
water, and the fourth is earth. Each of these is held tightly
inside the next, and each sustains the other in such a way
that the earth is held in the middle. First, fire
encloses the air where we are, and that air
encloses the water, which surrounds the
earth. This is just like with an egg,
where the white surrounds the yolk, and in the middle
of the yolk there is as it were a drop of fat that
is not held in any part. And that fat which is there
does not touch anything else. In just such a manner
is the earth placed in the middle of the sky, so that it
is equally far from the sky above it as the sky below. You can see this

air perpetuel ne vivre ne demourer tant comme
nous aions corps mortel. Comment les .iiii.elemens sont
Celle clarte dont nous vous avons assiz
parle qui air espirituel est appelle. et
ou les angeles prendent leur atourne
ment environne alentour du monde les quatre
elemens que dieu crea et assist lun dedens laultre
Dont lun est le feu. le second est lair. le tiers est
leau. et le quart est la terre. Dont lun se serre
en laultre. et laultre soustient en telle manie
re que la terre se tient ou milieu. Le feu qui enclost
premierement cest air ou nous sommes. et celui air
enclost leaue apres laquelle se tient alentour de la
terre. Tout pareillement comme len voit del oeuf
que la[n?]bu[n?] enclost le myoeul et ou milieu du my
oeul a aussi comme une goute de gresse qui ne se
tient de nulle part. Et la gresse qui la se tient ny
touche de nulle part. Par tel et pareil regard est
la terre assise ou milieu du ciel tant et si egalement
que autant est elle loings du ciel par hault que
par bas. ainsi comme vous povez veoir le point

perpetual air, nor live, nor remain there, so long
as we have a mortal body. [rubric:] How the four elements are
This clarity that we have spoken to you about, // placed
which is called the spiritual air, where the angels
have their abode, encircles the world with the four
elements that God created and placed one inside the other.
Of these, the first is fire, the second is air, the third is
water, and the fourth is earth. Each of these is held tightly
inside the next, and each sustains the other in such a way
that the earth is held in the middle. First, fire
encloses the air where we are, and that air
encloses the water, which surrounds the
earth. This is just like with an egg,
where the white surrounds the yolk, and in the middle
of the yolk there is as it were a drop of fat that
is not held in any part. And that fat which is there
does not touch anything else. In just such a manner
is the earth placed in the middle of the sky, so that it
is equally far from the sky above it as the sky below. You can see this