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purposes, the building would in that case be a living crea- 

 tion. 



Now it was logically proved, in another part of this work, 

 that the Universe, or the whole great Kingdom of materiality 

 which it comprises, is not self-existent and eternal, but that it 

 as necessarily had a beginning as any human or other physical 

 organism had that it is therefore necessarily dependent upon 

 an antecedent and correspondent existence as its Cause, which 

 must have been, not inferior, but superior, to itself, even as 

 the natural sun is superior to the plant which its beams cause 

 to grow. Being thus superior to, and the cause of, the whole 

 of material existence, we were forced to conceive of it as a 

 tf/^ir-material, swper-universal, and hence spiritual Existence, 

 of which intelligence, personality, and hence Divinity, are 

 predicable. 



This spiritual, intelligent, personal Divinity, whom we call 

 God, then, being antecedent to, and the Cause of, the univer- 

 sal system of creation, and sustaining toward it the same re- 

 lation which an earthly builder sustains toward a house pro- 

 posed to be erected, must, in like manner, with the latter, 

 have conceived in his own mind the archetypes or patterns 

 of the universal structure, with all its included kingdoms, 

 systems, series, degrees, species, .and essential forms, from 

 lowest to highest, before proceeding to clothe these with outer 

 investiture. And as in the mind of the human builder, the 

 archetypes of the proposed house are, as it were, the spiritual 

 nuclei around which, by his own volitionary effort, the ma- 

 terials are made to cluster, and thus finally establish the 

 structure as an outer creation, so in the mind of the Deity, 

 the archetypes of the Universal Structure, of Solar Systems, 

 of Geological Developments, of Mineral Kingdoms, Vegetable 

 Kingdoms, Animal Kingdoms, and the universal Human 



