'Being, Place and Becoming were existing, three distinct things, even before the Heavens came into existence'

'The recipient is fittingly likened to a Mother, the model of becoming to a father and the nature that arises between them to offspring'

'From the power of Silence appeared a great power, the mind of the universe, which manages all things and is male, and a great intelligence.. a female which produces all things '

'the fact that human justice which is founded upon the idea of 'law' has a celestial or transcendent model in the cosmic norms is too well known for us to insist upon it'.
'And Wisdom has with her foreknowlede of signs and wonders, of the unfolding of the Ages'
'Maat is the goddess of absolute regularity and order, of moral rectitude and of right and truth ... who assisted Thoth in his creation'

'When Zeus the great captain of the host of heaven...rideth forth and disposeth and overseeth all things . Him followeth the army of Gods and Daemons in eleven orders, for Hestia alone abideth in the house of the gods.

'Philollaus the Pythagorean says that the fire is at the centre calling it the hearth of the universe ; 'he calls it the hearth of the whole, the mother of the gods, the altar and substance and measure of nature'.