degrees of the body, in the original creation the degrees of the spiritual world were used instead of the degrees of an individual parental soul, and the degrees of nature were used instead of the degrees of an individual parental body. This was possible because the universe is the human form as to the arrangement of its degrees, the spiritual world being coincident with the soul, and the natural world with the body. Otherwise it never would have been said, that "God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham."
Since the laws of creation have ever been the same in principle and are those very laws which now create, their present operation in the human form, which is the highest organization, illustrates their processes in all time. As affection or love, which is the life-power and creative force in man, operates in his structure composed of soul and body, forming a soul-germ, or a perfected seed whereby a human being is created; so love, or the creative force from the Creator, formed by means of the spiritual and natural worlds the seeds of every living thing, and under suitable conditions unfolded them to a state of self-sustenance and self-perpetuation.
The importance of this point may justify its repetition in this form. Since the forces of the
