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 nature as the atmospheres about the sun are filled, with sun-nature.

The atmospheres proximate to the Creator are adapted to receive activity of so high an order as to be called vital and to have as their essence human life. Rock is capable only of the lowest form of motion. Water has a more complex activity, as is manifested in waves. The air is capable of so high a form of activity that it is the chief medium of sound. Ether, a still higher form of matter, is capable of so complex a form of activity as to be the medium of light, and to print upon the retina the perfect forms of objects. Aura is capable of a still higher form of activity called gravity. It is therefore easily conceivable that spiritual substances near the Creator should be capable of receiving activity like His own vital action, and of becoming charged with Divine human nature. These atmospheres, potent with Divine vitality, act within the Inmost, and fill it with Divine human nature. The Mind, investing the Inmost, is an organism so constructed as to become conscious of the essentials of the Divine nature in the Inmost, which are love and wisdom, from which are affection and thought. The character of consciousness, or the quality of life sensated, depends on the planes of the mind that are opened and