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 separated or discreted from God. He has no time, no space, no limitations, no progressions from one place to another, from one age to another, from one state of thought and affection to another, from one life to another.

His infinite love and wisdom, being above times and spaces and phenomena, have an infinite projection or extension. He therefore pervades every sphere without a horizon in any. He is therefore omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent.

The universe exists only by reason of its imperfection. It may grow more and more perfect for ever, but the absolutely perfect is unattainable, because it is the divine.

Now contemplate the two most profound and comprehensive laws of the spiritual world.

1st. The imperfect reception of the divine love in the will of the angels, and the infinite varieties of that reception, are the causes of all spatial appearances with their objects and phenomena.

2d. The imperfect reception of the divine wisdom in the understanding of the angels is the cause of the appearance of time and its succession.

These laws are evident; for if any soul were perfect in its reception of the divine love it would