284. In Part One of this work our subject was God, and we said that He is Divine love and wisdom, that He is life, and that He is the substance and form which is the one and only absolute being. In Part Two we discussed the spiritual sun and its world, and the natural sun and its world; and we said that God created the universe with all of its constituents by means of the two suns. In Part Three we dealt with the degrees in which each and all created things exist. Here in Part Four we will now take up God's creation of the universe. We are considering all these matters because angels have lamented before the Lord that when they look into the world they see nothing but darkness, and that they find in people no knowledge of God, heaven and the creation of nature on which to rest their wisdom.