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 This Word of God is the Mind of God, the divine wisdom, one and the same, filling all the heavens and reaching down to the earth.

This is the reason why God is omniscient. He is omnipresent, and He takes on or assumes the states of thought and feeling which exist in all the spheres and every infinitesimal fraction of a sphere throughout the entire universe. He therefore knows everything, just as the angel knows the contents of the mind of the spirit whose sphere he approaches.

We see only the letter of the Divine Word. We cannot lift our eyes above the feet of the Divine Man, which are "like unto fine brass." We cannot lift them to his right hand which grasps "the seven stars;" nor to his eyes, which are "as a flame of fire."

This letter of the Word is signified by the "clouds of heaven," for it veils the splendors of celestial and spiritual wisdom, and accommodates the descending light to the natural and even sensual states of the children of men. When the spiritual sense of the Divine Word is opened, when it speaks to us in the angelic language, the Lord is said to come in the clouds of heaven (not in the