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have the only full and true manifestation of the moral attri- 

 butes of the Deity. 



The foregoing will probably serve to the reader as a suf- 

 ficient illustration of the various degrees of the Divine Prin- 

 ciple, as now embodied in the different and corresponding 

 Series and Degrees of the creations he has formed. The 

 method of the successive origination of these various Series 

 arid Degrees of creation, has also been incidentally implied in 

 what has been said ; but as this is a point which bears upon 

 important speculations which are rife in these days, some 

 further illustration upon the subject may be useful. 



The point to be illustrated and insisted upon is, that creation 

 did not deyelop itself, either according to inherent forces of 

 its own, nor are its development and its present internal oper- 

 ations, owing simply to the momenta generated by the first 

 impulses impressed upon matter by the Creator, while the 

 Creator himself retired for eternity, as one would retire from 

 a clock that was once wound up and set a-going. In^case of 

 such retirement of the Deity, after the first impulse had been 

 given to materials, those materials would have moved only in 

 the direction of the impulse, and only until the momentum- 

 generated became exhausted, and creation could not possibly 

 have passed one Elemental Degree beyond a first develop- 

 ment. Hence, each superior degree of creation must neces- 

 sarily have been accomplished by the aid of forces outside of, 

 superior to, and altogether independent of, itself, which gave 

 the physical elements, involved in the previous development, 

 an upward attraction, and a tendency to aggregate in the 

 form of the next superior series of archetypes conceived in 

 the Divine Mind. And this is true in respect to the develop- 

 ment of creation, as one Grand Series, and also in respect to 

 the development of each of its corresponding sub-series. 



