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34. The principles thus enunciated enable us to deal with 
the difficulty of Miracles : for if the Invisible Universe could 
develop the visible, it may with no difficulty deal with it by 
additional developments from time to time. Indeed, miracles 
depend only for their possibility, on the existence in the Invis- 
ible of more powerful agents (p. 190) . When the Invisible does 
not interfere, the Visible goes on as usual (p. 191). 
The fact that some interference was effected by Christ, which 
is the next point to be thought of, is clear enough by His having 
for so many ages arrested the attention of the world. 
If Miracles are breaks of Continuity, so ivas 
breakTofcon- Creation, or the abrupt beginning of the material 
tinuity only as Universe. So, indeed, is the beginning of all Life, 
creation R u t these apparent breaks are avenues leading up 
to the Unseen. 
And further, there may be action of the Invisible W orld on 
mind, as well as on matter, and yet no real break at all ; and if 
so, it may be that the Unseen may so work on man's mind as to 
show him that he should live for the Unseen, and so attain his 
most perfect life (p. 192) .—(But is there no will in such a mind ?) 
The Christian Scriptui’es recognize this influence of the invis- 
Angeis may ible world on tbe visible, by their doctrine of angels 
be agents o'f (p. 193), and may intimate the reversibility of this 
this invisible. influence by t h e i r doctrine of prayer. The doctrine 
■CMS hrflu- Of the Holy Spirit’s influencing the souls of believers 
ence. j s a ] s0 an example of the invisible world touching the 
visible (p. 194). 
The doctrine of a particular Providence is stated both by 
Swedenborg and by Scripture, and may meet some 
vidc P nce a as P in'- objections as to the stern course of nature felt by 
fluencing the Mill and others. To reconcile this with general laws 
may not seem easy, yet there may be some adminis- 
tration from the Invisible, of those general laws in re- 
ference to special ends, as hinted in a beautiful passage of 
Tennj^son. The admission of an invisible world, structurally 
connected with the visible, thus opens the way at once to 
Religion ; and also to a doctrine of God “ analogous to the 
Trinity,” and leading up to the conception of the Infinite and 
Eternal One, — even though He cannot be known or loved ! 
35. But the doctrine,[of £ Immortality, at which 
of Th c<!nt'nuity wc have thus arrived (p. 198), is independent of all 
holds, if we collC eptions as to the Divine Essence. “ In brief, 
we essentially we merely take the Universe as it is, ana aclopt- 
wTth C the d visi- ing the principle of Continuity insist on an end- 
bie universe. j egs c ] ia j n 0 f events (all fully conditioned), how- 
