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MORALS AND DOGMA.
says, (Let Him, the ever-living God, be al\vays present in thy mind; for thy mind itself is His likeness, for it, too, is invisib~~ and impalpable, and without form.. . • As He exists forever, so thou also, \vhen thou shalt have put off this which is visible and corruptible, shalt .stand before Hitnforever, living ·and endowed with knowledge.. " As a matter far above our con1prehension, and in the He~ brew G~nesia the words that are used to express the origin of things .are of uncertain meaning, and with equal propriety may be translated by the word "generated," "produced," ('made/~or "created," we need not dispute nor dehate whether the SC}!\1lt ·O;f Spirit of man be a ray that has emanated or flowed forth from ,the Supre1l,1.e Intelligence, or whether the rnfinit~ Power hath c~n6d each into e~istence from nothing, by. a mere exertion of Its will, and endowed it with immortality, and with intelligence like unto; the Divine Intelligence: for, in either~().$e it may he said that bJ.
man. the Divine is united to the Hum~:n, Of this union the eq\li~ lateral Triangle inscribed within the8quare is a SymboL. We $~e tha .Soul, Plato said, as met;l $¢e the st~tue of Glaueus., recov~red from the sea wherein it hacl.lain. ·many years~w&id1i viewing, it was not eq1sy, if possible,. to discern what was its (j)"igi.~ :nal natur~.! its limbs having b~en p~rtly brokell and partly and by defacement .changed, by the action o{ the wav~s, at\d $h~l\$·, w~eds, ancl pebbles adhering to it, $0 that it mare resembled sarno str~ngernQnster than that which i.t was wht1P- it left It$ Di¥~J);' Source, Even $0, he said" we ~e~ theS~ul1de£O:fP1ed by ili\~1:;llJl~f· able thirlgs that have done it harm 2 h~v~ mutUatedapd 4~faG~d But the Ma$Qn whQ hath the ROYAL SE~~Er c;;an also with him
ar gue1 from beholding its love of wisdom, its tt1fldeflc;;y tQw~rd ~§~' sociation with what is divine and imt119rta,.1, it~ la]Jg~f aspiva.ti~.~, its $truggles, though th~y may hav~etld~d in defeat, with thei1l\-' pediments and ~nthra1l11eJ;1ts of the. S~l1;&eS ,.and the passions, when it sha.ll have b~en rescued from the.·~aterial··envir(nnn~'t~lf that now prove too strong for it, and he freed from thed~fE;),r~i~g and disfi.gtl,ringaccr~tion~that here a~qel:~, tp. it, it. will ag-aillhe
&een in it~ tlfUe nature?· and by· d~gr:e~,~ ~s~~lld by the rnystia l~~ft~1 Q£ the ~pll~re$, to it~first home ~4pl~c~\ ofQ:rigin.
The ~O¥~t. S~~ll~T" Qf whic4 yqu ~r.~.J?riRce, if A.4·!ept, .if15nHwl~4ge $~em~ to . you!: adv.i~q.l;;>fet and ~O.llQjs()t)n.! ,Ii.! foryou 1 .r4Qj~~twjth a divj,!e bea:\tty~ :i~!. that whioh 'the