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126 fine, fiery and active, as they recede from that sun and become gradually coarser by concretion and compounding, and so cooler and less active; become at length substances at rest, capable of re-action and thus of becoming formed and actuated. Thus was the substantial spiritual world produced; and by influx of the Lord's life of love and wisdom from that sun through those graded atmospheres it is continually sustained. All this in the spiritual world.

3. From the Divine love and wisdom, or Divine heat and light of the spiritual sun, were created the natural suns, our sun and the fixed stars, which are the first created centers of natural worlds; and from each natural sun, is produced natural atmospheres around it, first the finest, hottest, most active; then as they pass off into the distance from the sun, they become more compounded, cooler and less active, and finally substances at rest, thus water and then earths.

Here, then, is a universe created by the Lord as a Man; a universe that is two-fold, spiritual and natural, the spiritual within the natural and connected with it, as the soul is within and connected with the body; and it is continually sustained and conserved by