THE EPOCH OF FAITH 15 



the first action of God by the withdrawal of two personalities 

 of His Trinity from the other was the cause that made a por- 

 tion of His Trinity, viz., the Sun, Moon, Stars and Earth, 

 different from the rest, by making it a visible and material 

 existence out of the invisible portions of the eternal ether 

 from which he had evolved, not separated it when he created 

 gas and the earth, stars and moon. Every part of creation 

 always was and always will be part and parcel of God's Infinity ; 

 the only difference is that one part is visible and created exist- 

 ence, and the other part is the invisible infinite ether from which 

 it -has been created. Just as human life is but another combina- 

 tion of the gases of the air on which it lives and breathes, 

 and the invisible electrons from which it sprang and to which 

 it owes its motion and existence, in the same manner all crea- 

 tion is but a finite part of infinity which surrounds the created 

 portions of the Universe and impregnates and controls it by 

 the invisible forces of its infinite space of ether out of which 

 it has been reconstructed. 



And the ether that fills the void between the planetary 

 system is just as much an invisible living portion of God's 

 Infinity as the visible planets he has created are a part of his 

 finity, all tending to form and constitute a part of the uncreated 

 infinity. So there may exist, and probably do, twenty-one 

 invisible forces, all of which we are not yet able to compre- 

 hend, but which go to make up the twenty-one electrons which 

 constitute the twenty -one analogies in Nature to the twenty-one 

 forces of God's Trinity, and which united probably form the 

 infinity of ether by which we live, move and have our being. 

 Those electrical forces of Nature, the invisible actions of which 

 we are to some extent able to realise, if not comprehend, by 

 the discovery of wireless telegraphy and radio-activity, and 

 on which sources of invisible activity science is yearly increas- 

 ing our limited knowledge and granting us a better and more 

 reliable means of understanding than has been vouchsafed to 

 us by a limited knowledge of the truths of revelation which 

 our ancestors have stored up in the granaries of religion and 

 history. 



It is to try and illustrate this invisible unity of infinity 

 and finity that is the main object of my treatise, and it would 

 only be an act of presumption on my part, or on the part of 

 any finite mind to expect to completely understand infinity, 



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