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 was in its infant state and susceptible of being led as little children, it must have taken place. As I pen these words, it comes to me how utterly abandoned of reason must be the mind that needs any argument to substantiate the truth that He, who created man as His children destined for eternal life in His heaven, who has ever sought to keep us in peace, even as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings, made a full revelation of human destiny from the beginning. In Bible times there were still remnants of the first methods used by the Creator to teach His children. Instruction by dreams and visions abound in the Word. Instruction by angels was a later process, then came the prophet and seer, and the written Word, and lastly a revelation of its spiritual sense through Swedenborg, whereby the Word becomes the tabernacle of God with men, to which they may resort and be supplied with all spiritual truth.

The human mind, being formed as the product of creation's laws and having the faculties of perceiving those laws and of receiving their life, must have unfolded to the putting forth of that life much as a tree puts forth its leaves, flowers, and fruits through the orderly reception of influent life. This is not to say that man developed to states of wisdom and love