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 and the Spiritual-Natural, Spiritual, and Celestial Atmospheres, b represents those substances in or about the sun, from which the earth and its atmospheres were formed, that are purer and finer than those of the earth, and that do not come down to it. The Sun's Flame or Proximate Proceeding, b, is an effect in which the end and the cause exist, for the sun, like every particular thing, is composed of three continuous degrees by means of which it is adapted to receive through the spiritual world influx from the Creator, and to continue the influx. B represents corresponding spiritual substances superior to those of the human organism, and proximate to the Creator. As they are the first medium by which activity proceeds from the Creator and are therefore most fully charged with the Divine nature they are properly called the Divine Proceeding, popularly thought of under the term Holy Spirit, a represents the sun; and A, the Creator. The diagram illustrates how the natural universe and the spiritual universe are parallelisms.

The spiritual creation is to be thought of just as the natural creation, composed of earth and atmospheres, is, only it is to be conceived of as composed of substances so pure and high as to belong to a more interior world than nature. Life-forces originate in A, the Creator, are com-