On Occult Philosophy or the Secret Miraculous Birth of the Seven Planets and Metals

and the winds blew very strongly so that all elementa elements had to move, at which the water serpent became mightily terrified. And as the water serpent opened its throat wide, the wind struck so powerfully into its throat that the serpent had to suffocate to death. And as no life was felt in the serpent anymore, because its life departed from the chaos primordial formless state, there came down four angels from the region of the Highest, called Uriel, Gabriel, Michael, Raphael. They had three servants called Zapkiel, Zadkiel, Camael, who are constantly before the face of the LORD. And they called down from above from the height to one who called himself Lux mundi Light of the world in the Latin tongue. To him they assigned the suffocated serpent, which he could not warm sufficiently to make it alive again. But there was an Arabian prophet, who called himself Titan, who threw the dead serpent into the light of the world, and the light burned the serpent to ashes. One took up the ashes as a holy relic and offered them up on the altar which Lucpificus had built for his