or THE 

 UNIVER-. 



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THE CREATION OF MATTER; 



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MATEEIAL ELEMENTS, EVOLUTION, 

 AND CKEATION 



SIGNS AND SIGNS OF MIND 



The Doctrine of Signs Indirect Direct Signs of Past Action 

 Intelligent Natures Mind on Matter Matter an Ideal Form of 

 Being for revealing Mind Human Fashioning Power of Mind 

 in Proportion to the Signs Signs on the Dispositions and 

 Organisations of Matter On Matter itself All Matter ordered. 



WHATSOEVER we are conscious of, or become acquainted 

 with, in ourselves, in the heavens above, or on the earth 

 beneath, hath its signs by which it reveals itself. By 

 signs the consciousness of our own existence is awakened 

 and maintained, the knowledge of our own nature and 

 powers is acquired. By signs external nature presses in 

 upon us and compels us, willing or unwilling, to acknow- 

 ledge its presence, to do homage to its every characteristic. 

 It creates in us a thousand, ten thousand, sensations of 

 great variety, and of every degree of energy. And every 

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