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 the outward appearance rather than the inward reality. "Touching the Almighty, we cannot find Him out," for spiritual things are the subject of revelation only.

Since nature receives influx of force from an invisible source, and each of its degrees appropriates that force and acts as of itself on its own plane, the outward appearance is that nature creates and sustains of her own self. If influx into nature is disregarded, and matter alone is taken into account, there is no other resort than to believe that nature of herself has power to form and create from inherent force. Reason unassisted by an intelligence superior to itself looks to the senses, and follows downward to nature, the plane of effects, and away from the true source of causes and of higher intelligence. Consequently things superior to nature can, in the first instance, come into thought and become known only through some form of revelation.

In the literal sense of the Word, when rightly understood, may be seen the fundamentals of all genuine scientific truths, which, being taken from nature and declared in the Word, act as a fountain from which flow all truths of science.