Anderson, Rome_) [Image #28] THE PROPHET JEREMIAH SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME (_By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence_) The first division above the High Altar represents the creation of light.
God separates light from darkness, and brings order out of chaos.

In the second division, one of the larger pictures, God creates the sun and moon; He passes on and spreads His hand in blessing over a segment of the earth where the trees and herbs spring forth.

In the third, God gathers together in one place the waters which were under the firmament.

In these works Michael Angelo designed a figure of the Creator that has remained ever since the only possible pictorial symbol of God the Father.

He is like an old man in appearance and in wisdom, but as alert and powerful as a young man.