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image of every one of the particularized objects in actuality, are 

 known and cognizable as separately in their mutual intervened 

 relations one in the other in the absolute Unity in the one 

 general Intellectuality. 



A mechanic has a mental image in his brain of the machine 

 which he intends to build; that mental image in his brain is a 

 general image of that machine as a whole, in which each 

 separated and different particle of that machine is known and 

 cognizable one in the other in their mutual intertwined relation 

 in the one general image of that machine. He builds his machine 

 after the models or images which his brains create. Thus, the 

 knowledge of a machine creates a mental image in his brain in 

 exactly the same form as the machine will be which he will 

 afterwards construct in actuality. The intellect constructed 

 that mental image before the physical machine is formed, in 

 other words, the physical machine is only a copy of the image 

 which was previously formed by the intellect. The great 

 Mechanic of the intellectual and harmonical universe, of this 

 infinitely great machine, has a mental image in Himself of the 

 universe which He intends to build ; that mental image is a 

 general image of that universe as a whole, in which each 

 separated particle of the universe is known and cognizable one 

 in the other in their mutual intertwined relation in the one 

 general image of that universe. Thus, the intellect of the 

 universe constructed that mental image of the universe before 

 the physical universe was formed. The physical universe, as a 

 consequence, must be only as a copy of the intellectual image 

 which was previously formed by the intellect. 



But a mechanic of a physical machine, being himself a mode 

 of matter by its physical mechanism, and his mental image 

 also only a mental image of a physical machine separated by its 

 limitation behind him, has his mental image in a limited thing, 

 in his brains, separated from his intellect and behind it. The 

 universe in its generality, however, has no limitation, no begin 

 ning and no end, it is endless and boundless, nothing is behind 

 it, that there is no place and no time where and when the 

 universe does not exist; the intellectual image of that universe 



