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 image of Him, having as its essential nature love, wisdom, and use, the same as the particles of ether vivified by the sun are images of it, since they, like the sun, yield heat, light, and power. Love, or the life-force in the Creator, proceeds from Him, forming every atom of the spiritual atmosphere near Him into an image and likeness of Himself through the reception of something of His vital action and nature. The spiritual atmospheres, thus charged with potencies, become the creative forces, which, since they receive endeavor from the Creator, must likewise be pregnant with the endeavor to reproduce His form as perfectly as the degree of the substance in which they act will permit. These substances operating in the human soul are its life, yielding there its stored potencies of affection, thought and act. The substances proper to the soul, of which its affection and thought are predicated, in turn are charged with endeavor similar to that of the creative force; and their minutest particles become, in their degree, images of the Creator, through communicated potencies, with a like endeavor to reproduce His image. The substance of affection and thought, whose activity is still to be thought of as creative force, operating in the purest fluid of the brain, likewise communicates to this highest