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 forms of matter according to the law of Correspondence.

All qualities and powers being in the Creator as His essential being, it is easy to conceive how they may be communicated, in a less degree than they are in Himself, to the substances that are about Him, and that each object would receive of His nature according to its form. The substances that are nearest to Him would receive and have His activity and nature in the highest degree; they would be alive and potent with His vitality, and capable of yielding it in multiple forms. Those substances more removed from Him would have less of His activity and nature, as material substances have less of the sun's attributes as they are removed from it. The substances nearest to Him, being vitalized by Him through juxtaposition, would be charged with the endeavor to produce His own form in a most perfect degree, just as the sun, so to speak, converts the ether into its image by imbuing it with heat and light. Thus every minutest particle of that highest substance becomes a species of body in which appear and are represented the will and understanding of the Creator. Primary