are love and wisdom. The natural world was not called into being by the breath of God and set afloat with independent forces and qualities, utterly divorced from the spiritual spheres. On the contrary it is created from moment to moment by the inflowing life of the spiritual world. The spiritual sun flows into the natural sun by correspondence, and animates it as the soul animates the body. The love of the spiritual sphere becomes the heat of the natural; the wisdom of the spiritual becomes the light of the natural; the organic forms of the spiritual become the organizing, life-giving forces of the natural.
Our natural philosophers and astronomers seriously calculate how long the light and heat of the natural world will last! They estimate the time in which they will be exhausted by radiation from the solar surface. They predict a far-off period when the sun will grow cold and dark, and the planetary system perish in the frozen abysses of an eternal night. Blind leaders of the blind!
The natural sun exists and is fed by the perpetual influx of the spiritual sun into its inmost recesses. Its heat and light will endure so long as the love and wisdom of God, flowing through a spiritual sun, continue to create and sustain the universe.
