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progressive gradation from the smallest to the greatest, from 

 the infinitesimal to the Infinite, from the atom of matter to 

 the incomprehensible fullness of a Divine Spiritual Being. 



3. The spheres of all bodies in the universe, from smallest 

 to greatest, while they are generically similar, are specifically 

 different, and the sphere of each body corresponds to that 

 body's internal character. This is a conclusion which, as re- 

 garded merely by the reasoning powers, is necessitated, by the 

 obvious differences in the intrinsic nature of things, and it is 

 confirmed by the differences in the effects produced by the 

 ethereal emanations of medicines and other substances, and 

 even by the heavenly bodies, and by different districts of the 

 celestial hemisphere which were subjected to tests. 



4. As it was proved that the spheres of sulphur, gold, 

 medicines, etc., acted and reacted upon, and mutually modi- 

 fied, each other, and this, too, when the solid bodies were a 

 distance apart ; so, carrying out this principle, it may be pre- 

 sumed that the spheres of all bodies, terrestrial and celestial, 

 from smallest to greatest, from atoms to worlds, stellar sys- 

 tems, and the whole universe, in like manner, act and react 

 upon, and modify each other, according to their relative degrees 

 of magnitude and power. And this mutual interdiffusion of 

 spheres, and their harmonious and reciprocal action and re- 

 action upon each other, while each particular form and system 

 preserves its own identity, constitute an important part of the 

 physiological and functional operations of the great Anatomical 

 Structure of Creation, and which, as before intimated, corre- 

 sponds, in principle, to a single human body. The great 

 ethereal Sphere of all spheres may be considered as the 

 sympathetic nerve-essence of this Anatomical Structure, viewed 

 as a whole, while the sphere of each sun, world, and atom, 

 may be considered as its own particular nerve-essence ; and it^ 



