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A proper conception of the Creator and of His relation to laws and forces reveals that there is no change in the laws of creation, or infraction of constituted order, in the exercise of volition and direction. Divine Love in the Creator forms the Divine Will, from which is all force. The laws of the universe are simply the way that the Divine Will proceeds. Laws are unchangeable and forces constant because the Divine Will is Infinite, Eternal, and Omnipotent. It is most important to make this distinction, that laws are not constant because the Creator from whom they exist is like a great machine that being wound up must go just so, but for the reason that He, being Infinite, Eternal, and Omnipotent, can not change. Neither God nor His laws have changed or can change, but rather the conditions of nature in which they work. That change can not be predicated of one having the element of infinitude is mathematically discerned. Since the universe derives its laws and forces from the Creator in whom is Will and Understanding, the creation of first forms by Divine volition and direction was not an infraction of laws or disturbance of forces, but simply, the direction