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But the constituents, both of the human and Divine person- 

 ality, considered in more detailed reference to elements, forms, 

 and outer objectivities, are also, in each case, susceptible of a 

 seven-fold division, which may be briefly stated as follows: 1. 

 Subjective Love, or Love as an abstract quality of the personal 

 essence ; 2. Subjective Wisdom, or Wisdom as an abstract 

 quality of the personal essence ; 3. Subjective volition, or 

 volition as an abstract power of the two previous elements com- 

 bined, and a procedure from them both; 4. The essences 

 having the properties of Love, Wisdom, and Volition, em- 

 bodied in personal organism ; 5. Objective Love, or Love as 

 related to outer forms ; 6. Objective Wisdom, or Wisdom as 

 related to outer forms ; 7. Habitation, or a complete system 

 of outer objects and conditions related to the whole personal 

 nature and desires, and in which such nature and desires be- 

 come embodied and represented. 



In man the elements of this seven-fold classification con- 

 tain within themselves many corresponding sub-divisions, 

 some of which are much more obvious than the foregoing 

 general divisions, as will be seen when, in the course of our 

 inquiries respecting the MICROCOSM or the universe within, it 

 comes in order to discuss them. In God the elements of this 

 seven-fold division may be presumed to contain an infinite 

 number of sub-divisions, all of which are, in like manner, sus- 

 ceptible of corresponding seven-fold classifications ; and their 

 co-relations and inter-communications may be supposed to 

 constitute the infinite harmonies and beatitudes of the Divine 

 soul ! Our object at this stage of our treatise, however, is 

 little more than to unfold the idea of these classifications as a 

 basis on which the great plan-work of creation may be con- 

 ceived, leaving such evidences of their truthfulness as exist in 

 the nature of things to be incidentally developed as we proceed. 



