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spondent in the mass of amorphous planetary matter which 

 served as its source ; and so, by like gradations, the chain of 

 analogy carries our minds backward through planetary nebulas, 

 solar nebulae, etc., until we come to the one great, universal, 

 undivided mass of chaotic matter, which must necessarily 

 have contained within itself, undeveloped, the material ele- 

 ments of stellar systems, solar systems, planets, minerals, 

 vegetables, animals, and even the physical elements of the 

 human constitution. Though indefinite in the extreme, this, 

 in its occult properties and adaptations, .must, as a universal 

 material Germ, have involved the physical correspondences of 

 all the creations which subsequently sprang from it, in the 

 same way as the acorn involves the physical correspondences 

 of the future oak ; and by an intelligence capable of perceiv- 

 ing its interior properties and adaptations, it might have been 

 predicted, in a general way, what kind of creations were des- 

 tined to spring from it. 



But as the Animal Kingdom, physically speaking, was 

 previously contained in the Vegetable, and the Vegetable 

 Kingdom was contained in the Mineral, and so on throughout 

 the descending scale, so the great original, universal Kingdom 

 of unformed matter, and whose undeveloped properties and 

 principles were typical of all subsequent and subordinate 

 Kingdoms, was itself as one Kingdom, previously involved 

 in the infinite, eternal, and unoriginated Kingdom of Spirit- 

 uality, which, as before shown, constitutes the DIVINE PER- 

 SONALITY. This Kingdom of Spirituality in other words, 

 the Divine Personal Being comprises, therefore, not only the 

 material (or substantial), but the spiritual and volitional, and 

 hence the entire elements of the Cause of all things in universal 

 creation ; and hence the Creator and the created must stand as 

 mutual exponents of each other. 



