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human of the spirit can be formed by adjustment to the Divine Human through the spiritual world. And is it going too far to say that it is the undefined consciousness of this that has fixed so fundamentally in the Christian faith the belief in the Divine Humanity, the Personality of God, that has in all time been so resolutely defended?

If we regard the spiritual world not material, but real and substantial as the natural world, having corresponding substances and forces, yet purer and higher, if we will use the same, sound sense in thinking of that which is invisible to the corporeal senses as we do of the visible, the formation of the spirit with its special organs and faculties is as rationally, easily, and clearly conceived as is the development of the material organs of sense by the impact of natural forces.

The line and purpose of developing forms were to take on an ever more