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 It has also been observed that the higher planes more fully present a resemblance to Him, which resemblance finally diminishes in ultimate matter to what is called the inherent property of matter, its endeavor, and the law of its action, the atom's will and understanding. It has also been shown that in plants the endeavor takes a higher resemblance, that of plant life; in animals, it becomes their instinct and volition; in man it appears as his will and understanding. One thing is in the form of another, all being sustained from the Divine Humanity by Correspondence. The law is universal. A city is but a greater man. It is simply the faculties common to one mind developed in many persons in many directions. A nation is but a greater man, the greater development of what is in potency in one man. The inhabitants of the globe are a still greater man, receiving more from the Divine Humanity. The entire heavens are a still greater man, and all who receive the unperverted influx from the Divine Humianity are the Grand Man, the Maximus Homo. All humanity that receives from the Divine Humanity receives only what is therein, and so, as it were, is as a whole a humanity.

Notice how the mind is a little kingdom of powers that serve one another. Reflection, memory, perception, reason, judgment, and the like,