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 outward life and conduct. From this WORD, possessing all the fulness of love and wisdom, we learn that heaven itself is formed into a trine or threefold order; thus that there are three heavens corresponding with the three senses, the celestial, spiritual, and natural. Solomon speaks of the heaven of heavens (1 Kings viii. 27), and Paul of the third heaven (2 Cor. xii. 2), where he heard things that he could not utter, evidently because they were transcendently above all human language. The true quality of Divine Revelation, possessing celestial, spiritual, and natural truth, and treating of all the conditions of angelic and human life, is beautifully represented in Ezekiel's vision by these three remarkable appearances, the infolding fire, the brightness that was around it, and the colour of amber going out of the midst of the fire. Let us pause here to put away all our earthly desires—the shoes from off our feet—for the ground is holy.

The Lord God of heaven is life itself, the source of all animation. The proximate sphere of the divine glory, pure ardent love, is represented by the fire infolding itself, to instruct us that divine love ever dwells in the bosom of deity, dispensing by its own brightness, those joys and blessings which give life and happiness both to angels and men. This sphere of life, in its going forth, is first received in the heaven of celestial angels, and is there seen as hallowed fire—infolding, dispensing blessings to all. The same divine sphere, when received by spiritual angels, is modified by them, and seen as brightness surrounding the fire—wisdom surrounding love. The divine sphere of truth still continuing its descent to men on earth, is denoted by the colour of amber, and is at last clothed