44 The Cause of Life and Motion 



identity as derived from the peculiar actions and 

 forms of the elements of which it is constituted. 

 There are many plants which have individual 

 identities or minds, and these in common with a 

 number of the lower orders of animals see an object 

 close at hand with their minds. That is an ob- 

 ject when sufficiently near, becomes enveloped by 

 the mind, and it is seen at all parts at once. 



MAN. 



Man is the highest form on earth of the 

 animal creation, and his identity may become so 

 perfect as to have a self-sustaining circulation ; 

 that is to say, his mind may become like a perpe- 

 tual machine, circulating within itself. Such a 

 mind and such, only is fit for Heaven. It must 

 be in harmony with the forces which sustain it, 

 and then it becomes as a body unto itself. 



The Spirit of God is ever trying to assert 

 itself in the mind of man, but if the material of 

 the man is too gross to receive the impression, 

 he must die the everlasting death. 



The earth is a mass of corrupt material under 

 process of purification, and the work is going on 

 with all possible speed. God is one part of the 

 Universe, and matter is the other; one is the 

 embodiment of Life, the other of Death, and 



