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the empyrean. Thus God declares in his holy word, " He 

 sat upon the empyrean to govern the universe." 1 Yo.u 

 should know, also, that what we have been maintaining is 

 convincingly established. It is known to men of penetra- 

 tion by revelation. 



" God created man in his own image." What does this 

 mean, and how is it known to be true? Know, beloved, 

 that the sovereign recognizes no other person except the 

 sovereign himself. If the Lord had not appointed you to 

 be sovereign over the body as over a kingdom, if he had 

 not confided to you the affairs of its government, and had 

 not given you this brief copy as a model, how would you 

 have been able to comprehend the sovereign, who is inde- 

 pendent of reasoning and of place, and who cannot be 

 known by argument or hypothesis or in any other way ? 

 Thanks and praises be given to him who is without begin- 

 ning and eternal, to him who is unceasingly beneficent, to him 

 who made you sovereign over yourself, who subjected your 

 body to you for a kingdom, who made your heart to be an 

 empyreal throne, and made the animal spirit which is the 

 fountain of the heart, to be a seraphic messenger. He ap- 

 pointed the brain to be the throne, and the treasury of the 

 imagination to be the Preserved Tablet. He made the 

 cupola of the brain, which is the source of the nerves and 

 the mine of the faculties, to be like the vault of heaven and 

 the stars. He appointed the fingers and the pen to serve 

 the elemental qualities of nature, and subjected them to 

 your order. He made you more excellent and noble than 

 all other creatures, and to exercise rule over all possible 

 things. He has bidden you to beware and not to be heed- 

 less of your soul, which is your kindom and dominion : for 

 to be regardless of your soul, is to be regardless of your 

 Creator and Benefactor. 



1 S. 10: 3. 



