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440 for the solid and grand ideas of Truth. Animals and mortals present the gradation of divine thought, rising in the scale of intelligence, taking form in masculine and feminine ideas. The fowls that fly above the earth, in the open firmament of heaven, correspond to aspirations, soaring beyond and above personality, to the understanding of their impersonal and Divine Principle.

Spirit is symbolized by strength, presence, and power; also high and holy thoughts, winged with Love. The angels of His presence, which have the holiest charge, abound in the spiritual atmosphere of Mind, and constantly reproduce their own characteristics.

Spirit blesses the multiplication of its own pure and perfect ideas, as evolved from the One Mind.

The advancing steps, in the teeming universe of thought, lead on to more exalted ideas.

Spirit inspires one idea by another. Diversity, classification, and individuality are as eternal as Mind; but