54: PRINCIPLES OF SYNTHESIS. 



That the great Kingdom of universal matter, and what, for 

 the sake of perspicuity, we have called the great Kingdom of 

 universal Spirit, stand in relations to each other similar to 

 (though more comprehensive and perfect than) the relations 

 subsisting between any two conjoined subordinate kingdoms 

 in nature, is an idea which it is desired the reader should dis- 

 tinctly comprehend, as it lies at the foundation of all true, 

 material, and spiritual philosophy, and will, as it is believed, 

 tend to entirely reclaim science from the general ten- 

 dency which it has long apparently had, to Pantheism and 

 Atheism. 



Considering that matter, as such, originated in the creative 

 efforts of Spirit, and hence Mind, there is another point of 

 view, from which it will appear that matter, both in its 

 primeval state, and in all its subsequent states of mundane 

 forms, must necessarily have been in exact correspondence 

 with its Source and producing Cause. We know something 

 of the nature and operations of Mind, by experience and con- 

 sciousness. We know that the mind of the architect, for 

 instance, constructs an edifice within itself, or within its own 

 conceptions and thoughts constructs it as an invisible and 

 spiritual edifice before proceeding to give it a physical 

 form in the outer world. After the building is physically 

 erected, therefore, it stands as a precise image and corre- 

 spondent of its archetype or conception which first existed in 

 the mind. 



Applying these principles to the subject under present in- 

 vestigation, we may consider the Divine Thought as the Archi- 

 tect, and the universe, or any of its systematically organized 

 stages of development, as the Edifice. Not only, then, must 

 the archetype of the universe in its maturity, with all its har- 

 monious worlds and systems, but even the archetypes of 



