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And here it may be remarked, that if there is any relation be- 

 tween Cause and Effect, it must not only be a relation of 

 generals, but of particulars ; and thus the Cause must be a 

 precise archetype of which the Effect is an antitype or em- 

 bodied representative ; and hence the two must, throughout, 

 precisely correspond to each other. Every degree of creation, 

 therefore, may be considered as a precise outer expression of 

 the corresponding degree of Divine Love, Wisdom, and 

 Energy which vitalizes and governs it, and in which it was 

 previously contained as an archetype. 



Moreover, these interior Divine dynamic principles, together 

 with their prescribed modes of action, constitute the operative 

 laws of nature. According to this view, while there is a law 

 for every class of natural and even spiritual phenomena, and 

 all things may be explained without a resort to corafra-natural 

 or contra-legal agencies, laws, on the other hand, are not those 

 lifeless, unintellectual fatalities which they are represented to 

 be in prevalent philosophies of the day, but they are the ex- 

 press modes of perpetual Divine volition. In looking, there- 

 fore, upon this universe, with all it contains, as faw-governed, 

 we may, at the same time, look upon it as 6W-governed. But 

 on this point, more in its proper place. 



If this view is correct, then there is, in reality, no necessary 

 antagonism between materiality and spirituality, nature and 

 heaven, reason and revelation, science and theology, but each 

 may be regarded, when correctly understood, as the exponent 

 of the other. Quite distinct, however, is this view from that 

 gross speculation which makes of God nothing more than the 

 ultimately sublimated and self-moving essences of the natural 

 universe a kind of universal hyper-galvanic battery which, 

 by its perpetual and self-generating action, produces solar and 

 planetary revolution, terrestrial changes, and those movements 



