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 like all forces, has therefore its first origin in the Creator, the primal fountain of every activity.

The origin of the sun's heat is explained in the same way. The sun, composed of ethereal matter in a most pure and free state gathered about a center, because of its extreme purity and sensitiveness, is focal to the general influx into the spiritual world from the Creator. The activity that constitutes the Creator's life is communicated to the atmospheres of the spiritual world, to which the rarefied substance of the sun is sensitive and responsive. The influx from the Creator through the atmospheres of the spiritual world into the sun causes the particles of the sun's atmosphere to assume most complex and powerful activity or gyrations. From the sun's proximate atmosphere the aura and ether receive their forces and are actuated, which in turn act upon the earth and give to grosser forms of matter their natural activities and forces. Since the Creator formed the earth by means of the sun, putting forth from it successively lower atmospheres until they terminated in the dead matter of the terreous globe, the creative energy perpetually flows down the successive degrees,