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ansightly excrescences until they sink into some inferior position, low — ^low in the scale 
to what they might have occupied. 
" Leaving this intensely metaphysical subject, we can perceive how the point of the 
seventh being once attained, true and eternal sphere motion would be gradually originated, 
increasing and increasing until the limits of the six prime stations are reached. The 
eternal sphere or globe would then have attained its utmost limits, and iutluential force 
would then expend its remaining impulses in the formation of a cubic outline, exterior to 
the sphere, with the six prime powers centre of each square. The problem of the New 
Jerusalem, mentioned in Revelations, has bearing upon this point, because it is there stated 
that the city lieth four-square, and the length is as large as the breadth ; and also that 
the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. 
" The millennial era, or the binding of Satan, is likewise of peculiar importance here, 
because the first resurrection is perhaps noiseless and gradual, the second instantaneous 
and reverberatory ; as if it were the sudden resolution of all dissonant materialisms, and 
their forcible banishment either to centre or circumference, the abode of the truly blessed 
being medial between the two extremes." . . . 
" If we look upon the creation of Adam as a mechanism endowed with faculties re- 
sembling those of his Creator, then it seems we must accord to man three powers, those 
powers being capable of varying in all grades, but never capable the one of totally com- 
prehending the other, of separating itself therefrom, or of maintaining a separate position 
apart, to the total exclusion of the other two. Ever three, and yet one ; ever capable of 
variable extension or contraction, and yet mono-central as regards the combined unity. 
"Adam, being created, could not be totally self-reliant, of necessity he must be de- 
pendent upon the care of his Divine Creator. The life-volume of Adam's existence not 
being self-eternal, or not self-existent, at least one plane or point of such volume must 
be everly stationary or reliant. 
" If one supremely selfish attempt were made to live alone and independent, the Adamic 
creation having a beginning, seems to give the result thus : A living death or a resolu- 
tion of the Adamic life or beauty into simple atomic elementary existence, because the 
power becoming totally mono-central, would return unto the key-note of its first pro- 
duction, become electrically repulsive, and subsiding into silence end the life harmony of 
man upon earth. The etfects of eating of the tree of life, would, according to this view, 
have been a centration of the life vivifying forces so as to cause eternal intellectual death, 
or constriction of the life components, giving, therefore, life eternal as a simple exercise 
of station — a mere atom. On the other hand, the effects of eating of the fruit of the 
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, implies an inquiring mind, a desire to know 
without the self-assumption of supreme arrogant presumption, a species of timidity 
mixed with the sin. As the tree of life gives only one point or radiant instantaneous 
death, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil gives two points, or an undulant ten- 
dency, causing the three to become five, and therefore requiring time till the power 
vacillating, extending, and fluctuating, gradually subsided into death or various grades of 
simple outline existence. This human life decadence we know and believe to have been 
arrested by ' Jesus ' perfectly accomplishing an appropriate work at, and during the ap- 
pointed time." . . . 
" Imperfections and mis-statements may be found here and there in the Bible, because 
as a book it is subject to the variable free will force of man. Be that as it may, if from 
such a book we can glean sufficient to enable us to know the how and why of creation, 
and of the appearance and glorious work of Jesus, it is all that is absolutely necessary 
for the purposes of salvation. 
" As a still more condensed view may be agreeable to the purely scientific, the follow- 
ing is given : — 
" There are three species of space occupation, and these are the vivic or fluid occupa- 
tion of space, the void, and the atomic, or the rigid unchangeable delineation of a space. 
" There are three varieties of space harmony ; — the magnetic, thermic, and electric. 
The magnetic relates to motions within a fluid or connected volume. The electric relates 
to the actions of distinct and separated volumes. The thermic to the compound amass- 
ment of distinct volumes and interspersed fluidities." 
We have given in these selections a fair sample of the work ; every in- 
dividual who reads it must judge of its value for himself. 
