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 wisdom of God, flowing through authentic and recognized channels, felt in every heart, clearly comprehended in every mind. There is no possible collision of interests or powers or forces, because all these have been surrendered to God. He assigns every angel his post and office, just as He keeps every star in its place throughout the shining abysses of the natural sphere.

The type upon which all the heavenly organizations are effected is the Human Form, that transcendent epitome of all the principles, forms and powers of the universe, that image and likeness of God. Each society is constituted and each heaven is consolidated on the principle of the human body, in which every organ and every cell and unit of an organ, lives and works for the benefit of all the rest, and takes nothing from the common fund but what is required to keep it in healthful, working condition. The life and joy of the soul are in the work and in the use or the good of it.

Societies and individuals have their places, associations, powers, forms and objective surroundings according to the uses or functions they love to perform. They differ widely in all these respects, but such is the divine order which prevails in heaven, that all the infinite parts work harmo-