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niously together to the common end; and such is the perfection, peace and fitness of the whole, that the heavens appear in the sight of the Lord as one man, and each individual is a perfect miniature of the whole.

This pure or unlimited and spiritual anatomy, this transcendental physiology, this universal philosophy of form, which redeems psychology from its abstractions and makes the universe a concrete, living cosmos, or organism of beauty, although first definitely stated by Swedenborg, has been dimly foreseen by other great thinkers.

Paul, writing to the Corinthians, gives this heavenly principle of organization the following expression:

"Now there are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administration but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operation, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal" (or for definite uses).

After specifying some ten of the different functions of the Spirit in different individuals, he continues:

"But all these worketh that one and the self-