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all-pervading life — animating the spiritual degree of substance, which is the indwelling and actuating principle of all material things." (pp. 246, 247.)

A SPIRITUAL AND A NATURAL WORLD. "God is the Great First Cause of all things that exist. The spiritual world exists in the natural as a cause in its effect. The spiritual world is a world of mediate causes acting in the natural world, but deriving all its power from the great First Cause, from whom it originated and by whom it continually subsists. Matter itself, the ultimate created substance, is dead and inert; and all forces by which its inertia is overcome, and all the active properties which it seems to possess, have a spiritual origin. All natural objects exist from and are actuated by corresponding spiritual essences^ to which they stand related as the body of a man to his soul. Hence all things in the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms of nature have their antitypes in the spiritual world, substantial spiritual entities corresponding in all particulars of organization with their material types." (p. 247.)

ORIGIN OF THINGS NOXIOUS. "This doctrine of influx from the spiritual world accounts for the existence of inverted or disorderly

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