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sense, a correspondent and representative of the seven-fold 

 constitution of the Deity, or the "seven spirits 'of God" 

 spoken of in Revelation. Each seven-fold creation, therefore, 

 is the same with all others as to correspondence, but is differ- 

 ent from all others as to degree ; and each one contains within 

 itself, as its vitalizing and energizing soul, a, corresponding de- 

 gree of the seven-fold harmonies of Divine Love and Wisdom. 



Let this latter point be distinctly understood ; God exists 

 in the universal cosmical system as its soul, but does not ex- 

 ist there as God, but only in the quality and capacity of those 

 vitalizing and operative forces and principles of form, which 

 were necessary to the creation, and are now necessary to the 

 subsistence, internal motions, and constant improvement of 

 the general creation, as such; in Solar Systems, God exists in 

 the degree of those vital and motive forces which are necessary 

 to them, as such; in planets God exis-ts, also, in his seven- 

 fold harmonies, but only in a degree necessary to constitute 

 the vitality, and to originate the internal motions and other 

 functional operations, of planets, as such ; in the Mineral King- 

 dom God exists as mineral and chemical Life ; in the Veget- 

 able Kingdom, as the principle of vegetable Life; in the 

 Animal Kingdom, as the principle of animal, instinctive, and 

 semi-intellectual Life, but not yet as God ; in the Human 

 World he exists as the principle of human Life ; but only in 

 a perfectly integral, pure, innocent, and harmoniously consti- 

 tuted Man, does He exist in his focalized and quantitatively 

 diminished, but qualitatively 'perfected Selfhood, as God. 

 But in a discreet degree above the whole universe of outer 

 creations, He exists in his August, Infinite, and Ineffable Self- 

 hood, as the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the 

 Beginning and End of all things \ 



Though these investigations have been pursued, and these 



