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The Word is written according to the law of relation between things natural and things spiritual. This relation is the Law of Correspondence. According to it spiritual things flow into, communicate with, and sustain natural things. It is the very law according to which creation itself took place and is now sustained.

This law being applied to the Word shows that the Word is written in pursuance of it, and is thereby so composed that all things of heaven and God are in the Word.

To expound this law adequately would require more space than we can here give. Possibly the briefest way to present an idea of it is by a general statement of its fundamental principles and a few illustrations by the application of them to the Word.

First, there are two great divisions of the created universe, the natural world and