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He was working, as results show, to bring forth a being having so high a form of mind that His creative power might ascend higher than matter. The creation of varying material forms is now substantially ended, but creation continues on the plane of the human mind and is in essence the development of the divine character in man. The Garden of God is now composed of human hearts. Once creative forces were directed to the making of lands, seas, mollusks, fishes, birds, plants, animals. Now it is centered, as preparation has been made, upon the development of justice, reason, judgment, purity, honesty, understanding, righteousness, holiness, spirituality, love—in short, all that we know under the name of the Divine Human.

Man being formed in the image of God that God might give Himself to man and unfold His nature to him, makes all true advancement to be pro-