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 of the universe was projected from the Divine Mind? Has not that universe been aptly called "the created or unwritten Word," spoken into existence by his will, representing in ultimate and concrete forms, by a sacred symbolism, the spiritual life, the infinite love and wisdom of the Great Architect? Is not the universe the mirror in which He repeats his image?

The horizon of each spirit or angel embraces the little cosmos in which his own image is thus repeated. God creates all the heavens by flowing into and through the universal angelic mind as a whole. The small part or infinitesimal fraction visible to each spirit, is determined by the state of his own affections and thoughts, which receive and reflect more or less perfectly the divine love and the divine wisdom.

We may never understand it or explain it further; but the ultimate fact remains, that spiritual forces flowing from within outward, from above downward, from one sphere to another, project or make objective a vast, visible, tangible universe, corresponding to the invisible, intangible universe of affections and thoughts concealed within.

In what other way did God create the world? Is not the universe wrought into forms correspond-