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 easily comprehended. Having been given the factor of the known natural body, a knowledge of the soul becomes definite: and from the given member of the understood material world, the spiritual world can be known; and from all, God the Creator, can be comprehended. The doctrine made known by revelation that God created man in His own image and likeness, and that man is a microcosm and the universe a macrocosm, is but the unity of plan carried to its inevitable conclusion. Consequently the results here reached are in accord with the conclusions of generally accepted science.

Diagram I, though crude and inadequate in many respects, is introduced to present a rudimentary image of the universe as to its degrees in successive order.

f, e, d, c, represent respectively the earth, air, ether, and aura, or the succession of natural effects and the material substances in which they reside. F, E, D, and C represent their supernatural causes and the substances in which they reside. For want of better names F, E, D, and C may be called respectively the Spiritual Earth,