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102 what He loved, and lived in open perception of His wisdom. Heaven and earth were united in man. The earth which the Word had made in the image of its powers and attributes, and the heaven which the Word had begotten in man by regeneration, were in correspondence and harmony, and the whole phenomenal world was a mirror of divine intelligence, wisdom, peace, and love. They had no need of a written Word; its light shone within them, and its truths were reflected in every phenomena of the Word's creation. They saw the Logos in the Cosmos. They needed no other instruction from without, no authority to coerce, no reasons to persuade for to what is good they had a "yea" implanted in the will, and to what is evil a "nay." Of course, creation was to them an open book of symbols, in which they read mental processes, spiritual principles, and divine ends, as we read ideas in words, with scarcely more thought of the things than we have of the words on the printed page, from which we seek only the meaning. Creation itself was the first Bible. There is such correspondence between the visible and invisible worlds, that we all, in our lucid moments, seek to