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44 all things in the spiritual world are momentarily created, continued and varied by living heat and light through the states of human souls; all things in the natural world are created, spaced and fixed in dead material forms corresponding to the living forms of the spiritual world and capable of receiving an influx of life and actuating force through the spiritual world. The natural world is created through the spiritual world. Created through it, it corresponds to it. Corresponding to it, the spiritual world flows into the natural world, and animates and actuates it, as the soul flows into the body,—not as becoming in any way a part of it, but as a distinct actuating form and force within it in all and every part of it. Why is a dead sun and world wanted?

We see in the light of this teaching from facts, the error of those who deny a dead material world. Without it there could be