240 LAW AGENCY AND DIVINE AGENCY. 



creation,with all the specific and essential forms which these 

 respectively include, were the spiritual nuclei, and pre- 

 existent, interior realities, around which, by the force of con- 

 stant Divine volition, the requisite particles and essences are 

 made to cluster, by way of establishing them in outer and 

 tangible forms. 



Now, both with the human builder and his house, and the 

 Divine Builder a^d the system of the universe, the arche- 

 types conceived in the mind, constituted the laws or rules by 

 which outer materials acted in their aggregations into outer 

 forms ; while, in both cases, the force by which those ma- 

 terials were impelled to act at all, originated in the volition 

 of the Builder. Here is the difference between Law and 

 Force. Law of itself could not create any thing, though all 

 things were created according to Law. Force of itself could 

 not create any thing, though all things are created by the 

 application of Force. It is by means of Force, as an im- 

 pulsive principle, and Law, as a director of its impulsions, that 

 all things have sprung into being. 



The idea may perhaps be rendered still more clear to some 

 minds, by considering the whole united system of archetypes 

 as one grand Mould, fashioned in the wisdom of the Builder, 

 into which, by the direct voluntative effort of the Builder, 

 materials are poured, by way of forming the outer structure. 

 But without the extra proceedings of pouring the materials 

 into it, the mould might exist for ever without giving rise to 

 the casting, while, on the other hand, all the efforts imagin- 

 able could not give rise to the casting, did not the mould 

 exist to receive it. 



We have seen that if the human builder, in clothing his 

 mental archetypes of a proposed structure, could permanently 

 infix in that structure that portion or degree of the energizing 



