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 motion, or the effect of the activity of substance, has its primary origin in the vital action of the Divine Organism of the Creator. He is omnipotent, not that He can transgress His own laws or act against His own nature, but because all power in its beginning resides in Him, and there has its origin. The activity that is in Him is of so complex and high a character that every kind of force, natural or spiritual, unfolds out of it. Force in the Creator is infinite Love.

Forces in nature are derived from Love in the Creator according to the same principles that forces in the natural body come from the mind or will. In the Creator force is essentially human, for there it is Divine Human Love. The activity of His Love is communicated to the spiritual atmospheres and to the spiritual world in general, where it, through the organism of the spiritual world, becomes spiritual force; thence it is communicated to the natural world, where through the organism of the natural world it becomes natural force.

Let us illustrate how the forces of Love in the