Chap. II. APPENDIX. ^^^ 



to tranfport itfelf to diftant times and places, not to exlft there all 

 at once, as the Deity does, and with other reftriclions and limita- 

 tions, fuch as are fuited to the nature of a Being (o much inferior. 

 And, even as to future times, there is not, I think, any reafon to 

 doubt that the Mind of Man may be endowed with an extraor- 

 dinary faculty of feeing into them ; and, even without any miracle, 

 I am perfuaded he, in his natural ftate, had, like other animals, a 

 prefcience of fuch things as his animal oeconomy required that he 

 fhould know. 



The great objedion that I have heard made to this dodrine of 

 mine is, that we imagine to ourfelves places which have no exift- 

 ence, and there converfe with objects which have no exiftence nei- 

 ther, nor perhaps ever can exift, being quite out of nature and pro- 

 bability. This, they fay, frequently happens in our dreams, and is 

 the cafe of every poet and caftle builder, who makes to himfelf a 

 kind of new world, in which he dwells, and ads a part himfelf, or 

 makes others ad. 



But my anfwer to this is, that here again we may difcover that 

 there is a portion of the Divinity v^^ithin us ; for it is from thence 

 we derive this creative faculty, imitating, in fome degree, that 

 higheft faculty of the Divine Nature, by which it produces Vv^orlds 

 out of itfelf. And, though thefe worlds of our creation are not, 

 like thefe of the Divine, material worlds, they are ideal, fuch as 

 we mull conceive to exift in the Mind of the Supreme Archired of 

 Worlds, and fuch as exift in the Mind of every artlft amon<-»- us 

 before the piece of art is executed, that is, incorporated with Mat- 

 ter. 



And thus, I think, 1 have fafticiently explained and ilhiftratcd 

 what I have faid in this and the preceding Volumes, concerning tlie 



principle 



