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 universe are derived from the Creator as the forces of the body are derived from the soul, the Creator is, as it were, the soul of the universe, and from Him were created through the spiritual world the first seeds as the soul now forms them in the body. Therefore in a most complete sense the first forms were brought forth from their respective seeds as they now are, except that where now the Creator uses the already constituted organisms of plants, animals, and man, which are formed, as has been shown, to respond to creative forces. He used the degrees of the spiritual and the natural world analogous to those of the existing organisms, and the favorable conditions of adapted nature. The primitive earth was specially adapted to such creation by tropical climate and exuberant vegetation, of which there is conclusive evidence and popular knowledge. Primitive man was created by the universal laws of Correspondence, the laws of the relation of the spiritual world to the natural world, whereby when man was created the conditions of nature were perfectly adapted to the sustenance of primitive man. We must not overlook the fact that artificial conditions and different modes of living have led man far away from primeval requirements.

The conditions in nature having changed,