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 Eternal Secret, the awful, yet radiant, is as far beyond the Ideal Jehovah, as is the human beyond the analid. Let us make a chain: Matter is the first link: Spirit is the second—I speak of now, remember; Soul—that which constitutes the Human -principle, is the third; well, this flows through all these, as man's spirit through his body. Now man is conscious only partly; he knows nothing just on the other side of himself, is ignorant of what life is, and of that august power which governs his involuntary self. Well, the flows out into the All—into the universe of, (I can use no other term,) into that of Soul, , Spirit, Matter; and while pervading and being imminent in All, is self-conscious at every point; in the , the , the Soul, the Spirit, the Matter, in every particle that is, or can ever be. I hold this, as the truest definition of the Deity yet given; and in the radiant presence of such a thought, all human things must bow; all human pride stand back, all human ideas pale and fade. * * And these .things came to me, and I believe them true. And God is not good, but beyond it; is not truth, but its foundation; is not power, nor Life, nor, but beyond, beneath, above all these! Spirit may be represented as the soul of matter: Soul as the inmost of Spirit; Monad as the base of Soul;, as the essence of Monad; God as the. Here, let no man smile at these uncouth expressions; they stand as symbols of mighty truths. I have said that Monads were scintillations from God's brain: They are: That Matter was from his body Monads are forms of thought, and are the bubbles on His ever-rising tide of Soul. Hence, these monads