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 tuting the Divine Human, in which are the infinite potencies. All power, every endeavor, the universal energy are gathered into it; or rather, because His Love is infinite, omnipotent, and eternal every power has the springs of its action and its origin in Him, and out of His loving every potency can be unfolded. Now we have but to think of that spiritual world as consisting of an ascending series of contiguous degrees with its lowest substances lying next to nature, and with its highest, purest, and most sensitive substances lying about the Creator, just as the finer atmospheres of the earth lie about the sun, to perceive that it is vivified by the Creator as nature is vivified by the sun. The purest and most sensitive substances of the spiritual world, lying about Him and being plastic and responsive to the vital action of His organism, become charged with energy and activity from Him just as the ether is charged with activity and energy from the sun. The highest atmosphere of the spiritual world communicates its activity to the next lower; likewise activity and energy pass on and down until they reach the highest substances in nature, which, receiving the impact, become imbued with energy and activity. Thence activity in nature is derived, and is passed down the successive degrees of creation to the lowest