Creation itself cannot be ascribed in the least to the sun of the natural world, but entirely to the Sun of the spiritual world, because the sun of the natural world is quite dead, but the Sun of the spiritual world is living. For it is the first Proceeding of the Divine Love and Wisdom. And that which is dead does not act at all from itself, but is acted upon. Wherefore to ascribe to it anything of creation, would be like ascribing the work that a craftsman makes to the implement which he works with his hands. The sun of the natural world is pure fire, from which everything of life has been withdrawn; whereas the Sun of the spiritual world is fire in which is Divine Life. The angelic idea of the fire of the sun of the natural world, and of the fire of the Sun of the spiritual world is this; in the fire of the Sun of the spiritual world the Divine Life is within, but in the sun of the natural world it is without. From this it can be seen that the actuality of the natural sun is not from itself, but from a living force proceeding from the Sun of the spiritual world. Wherefore if the living force of that Sun were withdrawn or taken away, the natural sun would collapse. Hence it is that the worship of the sun is the lowest of all forms of worship of God, for it is utterly dead as the sun itself is, and so that worship is called in the Word an abomination.