110 DYNAMIC AGENTS. 



cosmical forms ; these various descending embodiments bear- 

 ing to each other the relations of descending octaves. Thus 

 what is called intelligence in man, is called instinct in animals. 

 But plants also-, have a kind of instinct ; and so in lower degrees, 

 have minerals, worlds the whole universal System of worlds 

 each embodying and representing a lower degree of what 

 may receive the general designation of Love, Wisdom, and 

 Volition; or Expansion, Attraction, and Circulation ; the lowest 

 triune degree of which is embraced in the functions of Heat, 

 Light, and Electricity. 



The seventh dynamic principle of the universe, therefore, 

 which pervades and governs all other principles, is only an 

 embodiment of that degree or octave of the principles of the 

 Divine soul which is in immediate relation with, and serves 

 to control the functional operations of, the universal cosmical 

 Body ; while the higher degrees of the seven- fold Divine har- 

 monies, flowing downward from the infinite sources of Divin- 

 ity, are left to be embodied and represented in subsequent and 

 more refined creations, or remain at infinite removes above 

 the sphere of all terrestrial and celestial forms. 



Of the doctrine intended to be conveyed in these remarks, 

 a more distinct and enlarged understanding will be obtained 

 as we proceed. 



But, presuming that the reader already sufficiently compre- 

 hends the fundamental principles herein set forth, he is desired 

 to bear constantly in mind, that the dynamic principles of the 

 cosmical creation, were not developed by the creation itself, 

 but developed it ; and the same may be said of the vitalizing 

 and moving elements of all degrees of material unfolding. 

 The dynamic principles (constituting, indeed, what may, in the 

 aggregate, be called the general Soul) are thus the immediate 

 Cause of the outer development (or Body), which is the Effect. 



