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 My blood, ye have no life in you." The nature of that Love is that of affection—ad-ficere, to do to, to act upon. The Creator's Love is the source of all activity and power, hence the fulness of all activity is in Him. As thought is the first activity of love in man, so Divine Thought or Divine Wisdom is the form of the first activity of Divine Love in the Creator. The form of the activity of Love in the Creator is Divine Wisdom; the form of its unperverted activity in the mind of man, is truth; in the universe, it is law.

In regarding the Creator as a Divine Person whose substance is Love, He is not made a mere sentiment or a formless thing, but a real substance and form in which is the kingdom of universal potencies in their beginning, in their highest form, and in their fulness. The fulness of the kingdom of potencies in Him constitutes His infinity, and from their quality and height He is Divine.

As the Creator is substantial. He necessarily must have form. His form is properly conceived of as that ordinated series of potencies that makes the finite human form; but as in Him each potency is eternal, infinite, and omnipotent,