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The universe of Spirit reflects the creative power of its Principle, or Life, which reproduces the multitudinous

forms of Mind, and governs the multiplication of ideas. The tree or herb does not yield fruit because of any propagating principle of its own, but because it reflects the Mind which includes all. The material world reflects mortal mind, even as the spiritual creation reflects immortal Mind.

Infinite Mind governs all ideas, from the molecule to infinity. The divine Principle of all expresses Science

and art throughout His creation; and the only immortality of His work is in the divine Mind. Creation is ever appearing, and must ever continue to appear, from the nature of its inexhaustible Source. Mortal sense inverts this appearing, and calls ideas material. Thus misinterpreted, the divine idea falls to the level of human belief, and is perverted in mortal mind. The seed is in itself, only as Mind is All and reproduces all. Mind is the multiplier, and Mind's idea, the universe, is the product. The only intelligence or substantiality of a thought, a seed, or a flower is God, the Creator of them. Mind is the Soul of all, and Truth and Love constitute the Intelligence which governs all.