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 to his opening mind, and that form it, but also he is in Correspondence with the spiritual world, the realm of his spirit. In response to his desire for knowledge of right, justice, truth, and spirituality, light is given. From his desires for immortality he is given an inward intelligence that convinces him of an eternal, spiritual world. His internal longings for the perfect, the omnipotent, the infinite love that is human yet Divine, meets response in the perception of the existence of God and the reception of His life. To the cry of his whole being, natural and spiritual, the universe answers back. It serves him perfectly. It is his full use. So complete is the use of the universe to man, so accurately mated to her uses are his desires and faculties that it is evident that he is unfolded out of the universe; that he, conceived of God in the womb of the universe, is her child into whom she has gathered as an heritage and to whom she has bequeathed as her offspring the germs of all her potencies and possibilities. This is not to say that the universe of herself evolved man, but that the Creator through the universe caused her to bear a child that should nurse all her powers, and to which she should be from the Creator the child's responding use. Therefore when it is perceived that uses rule, that man is the first and highest