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and along with this the perfect assurance of the absolute 

 and eternal conservation of energy in the full perfection 

 of its vitality. The absolute equilibrium of energy 

 looked to by physicists as in process of culmination is 

 in reality an eternally accomplished fact. And the 

 equilibrium, instead of being realized in a "dead uni- 

 verse," is seen to have its perpetual fulfilment in the 

 infinite vitality of the divinely constituted Cosmos? 



For in its truth the one possible equilibrium for the 

 universe or cosmos is nothing else than the absolute self- 

 poise of the divine World-Energy itself. 



The central conception at which we have arrived in 

 our investigation thus far, then, is this: That the truth 

 of matter is force or energy; that the truth of energy is 

 spirit, and that the truth of spirit is absolute Personality. 

 God, then, is not a mysterious being apart from the 

 world. On the contrary, He is the sole truth and self- 

 unfolding Reality of the world. Hence, it is to be con- 

 cluded that there is no "material" world apart from 

 the spiritual. The truth is that the so-called material 

 universe is but the out-putting, the utterance or outer- 

 ance, the external mode, of the divine, spontaneous 

 energy of Spirit. The world in space is nothing else 

 than the external aspect of the world as Thought. It is 

 the absolute Subject self -objectified. There is no reality 

 but God. What we habitually call the "universe" is 

 nothing else than the outer modes of his existence. 



Thus, once more, does it appear that the laws of 

 Thought are equally the laws of things, for things are but 

 the objective forms or modes of Thought. 



