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 of the mind, the body, and the instrumentality of the oar, Love-Force in the Creator became love-force or desire-force in the will, thought-force in the understanding, nervous force in the nerves, muscular force in the body, and lastly the force of whirling water. Since, as has been observed, the spiritual world is an organism composed of successive planes of discrete degrees like the mind, and nature is an organism composed of successive planes of discrete degrees like the body, the origin of all natural forces may be seen to be the force of the Divine Love of the Creator, for the force of His Love is communicated from Him to the spiritual world as it is communicated from Him to the human mind; and force passes from the spiritual world to the natural world, as it does from the mind to the body. The spiritual world is the soul of nature just as the spirit is the soul of the body, and it receives its forces from the Creator and communicates them to the natural world on the same principle that the mind receives its forces from the Creator and communicates them to the body. The relation of the spiritual sun, which in essence is the Creator, to the spiritual world is illustrated by the relation of the sun in nature to the natural world. And just as the body derives its forces and form from the soul, so the