CIIAPTEE XYIII. 



DUALISM OF PRODUCTIVE FOEOES; OE, THE DIASTOLE 

 AND SYSTOLE OF NATUEE. 



FOLLOWING link by link the descending chain of analogy, 

 the conclusion was before arrived at, that in the beginning, 

 the materials of the universe consisted of one diffuse, chaotic, 

 or gaseous mass, without distinction of parts, or definite inter- 

 nal motions. Reasons were also submitted for believing that 

 these material conditions were not eternal, but that they 

 originated as emanations or projections of the more exterior 

 essences of the Divine Personal Constitution. It was shown 

 that, inasmuch as this whole mass of physical substance thus 

 originated from Divine spiritual substance, so physical Heat 

 in this substance originated from Divine spiritual Heat, which 

 is Love, and that physical Light originated from Divine 

 spiritual Light, which is Wisdom. It was also shown that 

 Heat is accompanied with a force or law of Expansion ; and 

 that from Heat and Light combined, originated the force or 

 law of Attraction or Contraction. As Divine Love and Wis- 

 dom (forming a Duality, or productive unity, consisting of 

 positive or negative, or male and female Principles) constitute 

 the spiritual Alpha and Omega of all generative forces, so it 

 is apprehended that their physical counterparts, consisting of 

 the forces of Expansion and Attraction, may be found to main- 

 tain an equally fundamental relation to all modifications of 

 force, law, and operation, existing in the realm of created Being. 



