165. The dead sun has been created for the purpose that all things may be fixed, settled and constant in ultimates, and that from this there may come forth things which shall be lasting and enduring. In this and in no other way is creation founded. The terraqueous globe in which, upon which, and around which, such things are, is a kind of base and support. For it is the outermost work in which all [spiritual] things terminate and upon which they rest. It is also a kind of matrix, out of which effects, which are the [last] ends of creation, are produced, as will be told in what follows.