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Spirit blesses the multiplication of its own pure and perfect ideas. From the infinite elements of the one

Mind emanate all forms, colors, and qualities; and these are mental, both primarily and secondarily. Their spiritual nature is discerned only through the spiritual senses. Mortal mind inverts the true likeness, and confers animal names and natures upon its own misconceptions. Ignorant of the origin and operations of mortal mind, — that is, of itself, — this mentality puts forth its own qualities, and then claims God as their author; albeit God is ignorant of the existence of both this mortal mentality and its claim, for the latter usurps the deific prerogatives, and is an attempted infringement on Infinity.

Advancing spiritual steps, in the teeming universe of Mind, lead on to spiritual spheres and exalted ideas. To

material sense, this divine universe is dim and distant, gray in the sombre hues of twilight; but anon the veil is lifted, and the scene shifts into light. Time is not yet measured in the record by solar revolutions, and the motions and reflections of deific power cannot be apprehended until Divine Science becomes the interpreter.