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 Answer—No. On earth there are seven distinct orders of mankind, and so there is beyond it. It is difficult to name these last without resorting to Oriental terms; but, as these will serve to convey something of the truth, I will attempt to classify them as follows: 1st, Spirits—Angels; 2nd, Seraphs; 3rd, Arsaphs; 4th, Eons; 5th, Arsasaphs; 6th, Arch-Eons; 7th, The Antarphim. Is this all? No. For the highest of the last five orders ultimate in a Perfection whereof the human mind cannot conceive. They become Deions, a supreme order of creative intelligences and energies, whose power, in combination, is only second to that of the Infinite God Himself. These constitute the towering hierarchy of the supernal Heaven. Their number is infinite. Nor hath ever a man born on earth reached nearer their glorious state than the second on the list, (Seraphs). They are creative energies, you say; if so, where is the field of their activities? Answer—The Amorphous Universe, circumvolving the material creation! Is space then bounded? Yes!

By what? I have just answered. But what proof is there that this tremendous statement is correct? Answer—The nebulous masses revealed by the telescope; masses constantly being ladled out, so to speak, of the immense sea of nascent matter, by the awful powers to whom that mighty task is assigned, and by those same powers changed or condensed into fire-mist, fire, cometary bodies, suds, planets, life-bearing earths! Then man is, in very deed, almost a—God?—You have said!