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 Into the truths of the literal sense of the Word influx from the Lord comes, illuminating and illustrating the entire scientific plane. All truth is derived from without, and comes to the understanding. All good comes from within through the will, which flows down into the understanding, and there operates according to the truths of faith derived directly or indirectly from the Word. Since all genuine science superior to merely experimental facts is from light derived from the Word, the Word is the only interpreter of the experimental facts. It never would have been imagined that there is a God, if the Word did not teach the "I Am." Nothing other than that nature created herself would have been possible to conception, if it were not declared in the letter of the Word that "God created the heavens and the earth." We never could have had any other idea than that the creating power is the "inherent aptitude" of atoms, if it were not declared in the letter of the Word that Divine truth is the creating power. "By the Word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the hosts of them by the breath of His mouth." It never would have been imagined that anything other than Natural Selection brought forth the higher forms from the lower, were it not revealed in the letter of the Word that God created each