152. It was fully shown in Part I, especially in nos. 52, 53, that all things in the universe were created by the Divine Love and Wisdom. Here now it will be shown that it was by means of the Sun which is the first proceeding of the Divine Love and Wisdom. No-one who is capable of seeing effects from causes, and afterwards, from causes seeing effects in their order and sequence, can deny that the Sun is the first of creation, for all things in its world continue in existence from it. And because they continue in existence from it, they also come into existence from it. The one involves and declares the other. For all things are under the Sun's view because it has fixed them thus. And to hold under it, is to fix continuously, therefore it is said that continuing in existence is a perpetual coming into existence. Besides, if anything were withdrawn altogether from the Sun's influx through the atmospheres, that thing would instantly be dissolved, for the atmospheres which are more and more pure and are made potent from the Sun, hold all things in connection. Now because the continuing in existence of the universe and everything therein is from the Sun, it is clear that the Sun is the first of creation from which all things are. It is said from the Sun, but from the Lord by means of the Sun is understood, for the Sun also was created by the Lord.