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Title: The World's Parliament of Religions : an illustrated and popular story of the World's First Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in connection with the Columbian exposition of 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902
Subjects: World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893 Religions
Publisher: Chicago : Parliament Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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two essential forms. Again he says, The universe owedits existence to the active and passive prin.ciples of nature. The two essen-tial forms are the active and passive principles of nature. The passiveprinciple denotes the substantive element of matter ; and the active principle,the ethereal element. Undifferentiated matter that once filled all space ina chaotic state, without distinction of substantive and ethereal elements, buthaving all the vital power within itself, is what is meant by the finite. Whenthe primitive substance passed from a rarefied to a condensed state, one por-tion became sensible, which we call objects, and the other portion becameinsensible, which we call the heavens. The insensible produce the sensibleaccording to the nature of the substance. The sun, the moon, the stars,and the earth, which revolve in ethereal space, all belong to the passive prin-ciple of nature, because they are sensible objects having substance. Their p: rw o 13 > W z > H •n 5p o £
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400 PARLIAMENT PAPERS: THIRD DAY. substance in its rarefied state, once diffused itself througliout finite space,and was not distinguishable from the heavens. The primitive substance before its condensation was not distinguishableinto a light and a heavy portion, and all ethereal space was rendered turbidand chaotic thereby. After the primitive substance had separated into alight and heavy portion, all ethereal space became at once clear and pure.After the separation of the primitive substance into a light and a heavy por-tion, though different objects remained suspended in space, the objects andthe heavens had indeed become distinct from each other. This is what ismeant by the two essential forms. At first matter was without form. Butafter becoming differentiated, it assumed distinct forms. Hence the appear-ance of two essential forms was the first step in the evolution of matter. In the beginning the principle of fire diffused itself throughout the uni-verse, in its latent state. It

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