HUMAN AND DIVINE BUILDEE. 



influence of his own spirit, which would be requisite, by a 

 spontaneous internal action, to keep the structure in repair, 

 and at the same time to refine and perfect it, the structure 

 would be, in some sense, a living creation. But although this 

 is not the case with the human builder and his work, it is 

 precisely the case with the Divine Builder and the universal 

 Edifice which he has established. Not only doe's the system 

 of creation as a Whole, but each of its included and corre- 

 sponding sub-systems, contain a power of internal motion and 

 sustentation, infused by the Creator at its origin, and which is 

 now perpetually sustained by influx from Him, and is ever 

 acting in parallelism with the original archetype, which consti- 

 tutes its law. It was in view of this fact that it was argued, 

 in another part of this work, in opposition to the received 

 philosophy, that if the cosmical system could, by any foreign 

 agency, become deranged or thrown out of equilibrium in any 

 way. instead of the derangement progressing, and ultimating 

 in a total wreck of the system, the internal forces of recuper- 

 ation would be such as to soon restore the wonted equilibrium, 

 and all things would go on as before. But on the other hand, 

 were the Creator to withold the influx of, and withdraw, his 

 vital energy from the universe, as soon as the momenta of ex- 

 isting forces and motions became exhausted, all things would 

 necessarily come to an eternal stagnation and death ! 



I have said that the archetypes or pre-existent ideal patterns 

 of each creation, are the spiritual nuclei of the outer forms of 

 which that creation consists, and hence that they constitute 

 the laws by which Force acts in the aggregation of substances 

 for the development of their outer forms. Now, as it was 

 before shown that each creation, both as to its exterior and 

 its interior and vitalizing constitution, is seven-fold, so each 

 creation, with its spiritual nuclei, life, and laws, is, in some 



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