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Rh Him, flowing in with His life from its first, highest and inmost beginnings through the spiritual world as a soul, into the natural world as a body. In this two-fold universe, internal and external, active and passive, the one is within the other, as the essential within the formal, the operative within the instrument. And the universe is two-fold because the spiritual sun is so; and it is so because the Lord from whom it emanates is so; that is, active love and reactive wisdom.

There is humanity inhering in this universe, therefore, from the essential humanity of the God-man who creates and sustains it; and every possibility of human form and use, and every spiritual and natural form and function corresponding to human life and need in this world and the other, were involved in the proceeding of creative life through the other world into this. That is, Divine life in its creative outflow to ultmates in the world, involved in their initiament and held in potentiality all forms to be developed, when the basis and re-action should be reached in the earths.

4. Given such a two-fold universe, with the spiritual world as its active soul and the