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 It may be remarked here, although introducing a fact subsequently to be elaborated, that nature, ascending by discrete degrees from the earth to the aura, and thus being vivified, through its discrete degrees acts upon the corresponding degrees of the body; and that the spiritual world, through its discrete degrees ascending likewise to the Creator to be vivified by Him, acts upon the corresponding ones of the soul. This is comprehended in intelligently calling man a microcosm; for in a definite and scientific sense man is a little universe in Correspondence with the greater.

Now as we have traced creation upward to the fountain of life, let us conceive of it by looking from above downward. Think of God, the Creator and Sustainer, within and above all, as the sun of the spiritual world, and whose very form is the Divine Human in which is every faculty, power, or capability. Next about Him lies the first created substance most sensitive and responsive to His own vital action, and so pure and plastic as to be imbued with the Divine nature in Him just as the aura is charged with the nature