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 whereby the end or use becomes the last in the fruit or seed. The same law applies to the creation of man. The end in the creation of the earth is the creation of the human race. The end proceeded by the spiritual world as cause, and formed the earth as an effect, and the end becomes the last in the creation of man. The same law operates in man when created. The end in creating man upon the earth is the procreation of the human race, for this can take place only in ultimates. The end, the procreation of the human race, proceeding by the soul as a cause, to the body as an effect or ultimate, produces human seed for procreation, whereby the end becomes the last. Such is the law and nature of creative powers perpetually proceeding from the Creator.

With the foregoing conception of the constitution of organized forms and of the operation of creative forces the way is prepared to state that the first living forms were created just as all subsequent forms have been, with only this difference, that whereas now the spiritual part is formed by the Creator through the degrees of the soul, and the material part through the