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machine, and the existence of that machine, when it is already 

 made, is dependent upon itself, not upon the architect, for the 

 abstract image (the idea) which we form in our mind, is eternal 

 of absolute existence and unlimited in time and in space. This 

 image, therefore, cannot be transformed into a concrete man- 

 gestation, which is limited in time and in space and is conse 

 quently non-absolute. Forming in our mind the image of a 

 triangle, that image can never be destroyed, even if all the tri 

 angles in manifestation be put out of existence altogether. Any 

 pure human intelligence, so long as it is true, as it contains not 

 any contradiction in it, is an eternal truth in all times, places 

 and with all men. It is never changing and is never partic 

 ularizing itself in different forms or shapes. Intellectual con 

 ceptions of anything in nature, if truths are as the laws of the 

 triangle or a square or of any figure self-standing by thenrr 

 self. They do not spring one from the other, one is not the 

 cause of the other; one form of truth cannot be converted into 

 another form of truth. If we draw inferences from previous 

 truths and base our conclusions thereon as we generally do in 

 Logics, in Geometry and in Mathematics, the previous truths 

 remain as such unchanged; they were not converted into new 

 truths. The pure human intelligence, therefore, as a real being 

 is not merely modified by a mode of the attribute Cogitation in 

 God, as Spinoza opins, not caused by God because it is actuated 

 by a different intelligence of actual existence, which was pre 

 vious to it, nor is a developement of the evolution in time, in 

 matter and force, as Spencer says, but it is Divinity itself, the 

 Being of Intellectuality of an Absolute Existence, in which no 

 other attribute or modification of any kind of activity is think 

 able. Thus, any general image in the brain of man, as it is 

 absolute, cannot be transformed into a physical or material 

 thing, which is changeable, nor have any relation with it 

 in actuality. But the universe as a whole, is in itself eternal 

 and endless. It had no beginning, for it is not made of nihility, 

 it has no end, for it will not turn into naught it is in absolute 

 existence for all eternity. Yet it is in a general activity, in an 

 eternal transformation. The universe to our perception is an 



