What is the biblical significance of water?

The volcanoes of the earth and of the other worlds are but safety valves. 

Observe that fire is the grand element in the hands of the Mighty Spirit to do his work in the production of worlds. 

There are certain gases, abounding in the atmosphere, which gases may be reckoned the spiritual state of matter. 

By the firing of the electrical particles, a refuse is produced, and in course of time, the gases become solid matter. 

This law is in operation at the formation of all worlds. 

Then these solid bodies, as they fly through space, are always gathering—or forming a crust of matter around the burning mass, while the sun—or some other great body holds them in due course. 

But the internal fire must have vent in some way—hence the upheaval of mountains on the surface of the globe in process of formation. 

And as the cooling of the mass goes on, the atmosphere is produced, which in turn produces water. 

That is why Moses begins his narrative of Creation by a reference to the waters. 

Our sacred books do the same, and in this Moses very likely borrowed from the Persians.

—Hafed, Prince of Persia, in Spirit