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166 realized, and rationally seen—the great lights of the heavenly mind, illumine its higher regions with thoughts, hopes and aspirations, and glorious glimpses of the higher life, which bathe the brightening world of the soul with joy. "Let the waters bring forth the living soul!" and from the great reservoirs of the mind, its waters of spiritual truth, start forth conceptions of God, heaven and eternal life, which make the soul a living, sentient thing, in a sense of which hitherto it has not dreamed. "Let the earth bring forth the living creature-cattle, beast and creeping thing!" and lo, the affections of the higher nature, of which these forms of living life are the symbols, become grandly alive toward God and man. "Let us make man in our image!" and the soul, now thoroughly transformed, becomes, in all its forms and full activities, in its very organism, in its every impulse, thought and act, an image of its Maker, the very and the only Man. "Let there be rest from creation's work, and the seventh day remain forever sanctified!" and the once weary soul is blessed, in this its high estate, with rest from evil, and peace in its completed state of love, while the holiness of God broods over all its walks and ways. Then supernal wisdom lights the human path of life, love in its manifestations of never ending beauty is the very life of its throbbing energies, truth lights the mind with never