Space, providing the dominant themes for the first six windows, ends in the top of windows 7 and 8.

God said, 'Let the waters under heaven come together into a single mass and let dry land appear'. And so it was. God called the dry land 'earth' and the mass of water 'seas', and God saw that it was good...

(Genesis 1/9-10)

From the base of window 6, in a powerful upward diagonal sweep, the land appears. From the dust of Space emerges a
symmetrical volcanic cinder cone here in window 8. The ash and weirdly coloured clouds suggest a huge chemical experiment. The colours represent the Earth's minerals - gold, bauxite, iron, copper. The ash itself begins to form soil.

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