The Book of the Cave of Treasures 3

1And on the Second Day God made the Lower Heaven, and called it REKi‘A [that is to say, “what is sold and fixed,” or “ firmament ”’]. This He did that He might make known that the Lower Heaven doth not possess the nature of the heaven which is above it, and that it is different in appearance from that heaven which is above it, for the heaven above it is of fire. And that second heaven is NOHRA (i.e. Light), and this lower heaven is Darpition, and because it hath the}dense nature of water mit hath been called “ Réki‘a.”’ And on the Second Day God made a separation between the waters and the waters, that is to say, between the waters which were above [Réki‘a] and the waters which were below. And the ascent of these waters which were above heaven took place on the Second Day, and they were like unto a dense black cloud of thick darkness. Thus were they raised up there, and they mounted up, and behold, they stand above the Réki‘a in the air; and they do not spread, and they make no motion to any side.