"Regarding the sun Saint Anastasius of Sinai, he held a strange opinion that it was created by God here on earth, then lifted it up and transported it to the fourth heaven, where the virtue that lay low below could spread for the benefit of a few, spread for the benefit of all, and there was like the heart of nature, from whose vital heat it is animated and from whose spirits it has the vigour to move and operate. (Book II, Chapter VII; 1839, p. 240)"