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bodied in cosmical investiture. Viewed in this light, this 

 seventh dynamic principle may be called Soul or Vitality the 

 Soul or vital Principle of the cosmical universe, or the Princi- 

 ple by which it, as a universe, lives and performs all its normal 

 movements ! 



Let me not, however, be understood as intimating that the 

 all of God was thus embodied in the universal cosmical struc- 

 ture. Neither the imiverse of material worlds, nor of heavens, 

 nor the heaven of heavens, can contain HIM who is absolutely 

 INFINITE, and it must have been, comparatively speaking, an 

 exceedingly small ray from his interior and ineffable effulgence 

 that sufficed to give birth to, and move and regulate, the ma- 

 terial structure which we have been contemplating, however 

 sublime and inconceivable to human intellect 'this maybe. 

 Nor was the Divine embodiment of which we speak, neces- 

 sarily an embodiment which, in its immediate exterior mani- 

 festation, would take the form of what is generally understood 

 by intelligence; though intelligence, as an attribute of a much 

 higher and more interior degree of the Divine Spiritual Con- 

 stitution, was the projecting, planning, and (acting through the 

 ultimately refined " odic" spheres, or quasi nerve-essences of 

 his creations, before spoken of) is the constantly supervising 

 and all regulating Principle. The Divine qualities as intelli- 

 gence were subsequently and, at a much higher degree of 

 creative progression, finitely expressed in the human micro- 

 cosm, which is expressly declared to be an "image of God." 



It is, however, here submitted as a truth which, it is be- 

 lieved, will become more evident in proportion as its founda- 

 tion and bearings are better understood that the .identical 

 principles of what we know as intelligence, are embodied 

 (though not as intelligence) in each kingdom or system of 

 creation below man, and finally in the universal kingdom of 



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