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produced a comparative vacuum that is, a vacuum in respect 

 to those essences which were subjected to the expansion, and 

 therefore produced a tendency to an absorption or rushing in 

 of corresponding essences composing neighboring particles, 

 and which had not yet, in the same degree, been acted upon 

 by the expansive force. Moreover, the active light-sphere (or 

 Wisdom-principle) which is an orderly procedure from Heat, 

 (or Love), or accompaniment of, and the administration to, its 

 wants, formed a recognizing and sympathetic connection be- 

 tween the particle first acted upon and the particle immedi- 

 ately conterminous ; and by an envelopment of the relatively 

 passive particle in the light-sphere of the relatively active one, 

 the former would become assimilated to the latter, and, float- 

 ing to it through the circulating currents of the enveloping 

 light-sphere, in the same way that the particle of iron "floats 

 to the magnet through currents of the magnetic essence, it 

 would become incorporated with it as a part of the same 

 body. Thus, as each particle is made the recipient of the 

 essence of Divine Love, it lovingly opens its heart, and ex- 

 tends its ethereal arms to receive and embrace its brother, and 

 the two thus become one. And being thus united, and be- 

 coming recipients for a further influx of heat, the same opera- 

 tion that before took place, is now repeated on a little larger 

 scale, and more particles are attracted. And so the process 

 continues to be repeated, until the minute nucleus of a CEN- 

 TRAL SUN is fully established, which, by a continuation of the 

 same process of unfolding, goes on to complete development, 

 forming the whole universal mass of physical substance into 

 one coherent and undivided Body, dense in the center, and 

 gradually shading off into extreme levity toward the circum- 

 ference. 



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