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Rh perversions of the Divine life, therefore they are nothing. What is meant by the phrase "no real independent existence," does not appear; independent of what? He has not yet shown how anything exists independent of the only life, not even man with an individuality and consciousness of his own. If there is one only "life, love, goodness, wisdom, power," how does it operate, how manifest itself, and to whom? What receives it, and whence and how does that recipient exist? Just here is the key to the psychology of the New Church, and to the confusion of Doctor Holcombe's "Thoughts." Swedenborg answers these questions in the Doctrine of the Divine Proceeding, and of created forms; the Doctor does not answer them, nor does he keep Swedenborg's answer clearly in mind, but more often the "idealism on which Christian Science is based."