568 INTELLECTUAL SYMBOLISM. 
430. This schedule of the objective has been ideally or subjectively determined, and the 
objective validity of the determination may perhaps still be doubted. Because all our 
knowledge is obtained through finite ideal representations of real objects, we are apt to 
think that such is the order of nature, and to regard the ideal as necessarily and univer- 
sally dependent upon the real. 
431. But even in finite intelligence, we may find reasons for reversing or modifying 
that opinion, for in every new invention that springs from the limited creative power 
which is typical of the Infinite creative power of an Infinite Intelligence, the idea is evi- 
dently antecedent and constitutive. The realized steam-engine is the adequate representa- 
tive of all the ideas of its successive inventors and improvers, but our mental notion of the 
engine is generally an inadequate re-representation of the adequate representation. Our 
ideas, therefore, so far as they are representative, are but secondarily so, while the objec- 
tive universe is primarily and immediately representative of the originally presentative 
idea of the Supreme Architect,—who has ideally determined the forms and relations of 
all reality. 
432. No place has been assigned in the objective schema, for the Consciousness on 
which all our analysis is based. In one of its phases, it may be regarded as subordinate 
to the purely objective Mind (KEE), and as constituting one of its subdivisions. But 
Consciousness is authoritative, not merely on the plane of mind. Whether we ascend or 
descend,—whether we contemplate the highest conceivable forms of being, or its lowest 
and minutest subdivisions, the plane of Consciousness shifts with our shifting points of 
view. The pure subjective is the image of the Divine, inasmuch as it stands in correlation 
to everything, maintaining throughout a distinct independence, which entitles it to the 
place we at first assigned it, as one of the forms of the highest duality which is immediately 
subordinated to the highest Unity. 
433. The accompanying diagram exhibits the relations, together with the experimental 
nomenclature, of the several subdivisions of objective Being. In the chart of Conscious- 
ness, as each of the subdivisions is still fundamentally subjective, and as each successive 
analysis is based on the same primary relations, the symbolic order of M, §, R, is retained 
throughout. But in studying the Objective, we attempt to penetrate the mysteries of 
Being as it is in itself, independent of subjective relations, and it therefore seems proper 
to adopt an arrangement which will group the several subdivisions more systematically 
around the central symbols. This variety of possible collocation under uniformity of law, 
is an instance of the multiform tendency to system prevailing in nature, which is much 
more agreeable than absolute symmetry, and more consonant with the theory of a Supreme 
Free Intelligence. Other instances of the harmonious blending of Liberty and Law, may 
be found in Phyllotaxis,—in the different classifications of Natural Science,—and indeed, 
