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Show thought, we come to inquire, Whence i matter? and Whereto? many truths aris to us out of the recesses of consciousness ‘We learn that the highest is present to th soul of man, that the dread universal essence whic is no wisdom or love o beauty, or power, but all in one, and eac entirely, is that for which all things exist and that by which they are; that spirit creates tha behin nature throughou na ture, spirit is present; that spirit is one an not compound; that spirit does not act upo us from without, that is, in space and time but spiritually, or through ourselves Therefore, that spirit, that is, the Suprem Being, does not build up nature around us but puts it forth through us, as the life o the tree puts forth new branches & leave through the pores of the old. As a plan upon the earth, so a man rests upon th bosom of God; he is nourished by unfailing fountains, and draws, at his need, in exhaustibl t th power possibilitie Wh ca of man set bound Onc the infinite, by being admitte the absolut natures of justic and we learn that ma inspir to behol an truth has acces to th entire mind of the Creator, is himself th 7 Digital Ima |