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ual world into nature, and not as an arbitrary will outside of man and nature. The Divine Providence of the Lord is infinite and eternal; it is general and particular; it is in the good and the evil; and it is, for both, the evolution of the best possible, by the divinely best means. It is the government of the Divine love and wisdom; and these cannot be separated, for the Divine love is infinitely wise and the Divine wisdom is infinitely good. In the Lord are infinite things of love and wisdom and use; from Him they proceed in their own nature and necessity with infinite endeavor to create receptive forms and fill them and relate them into one harmonious recipient and responsive image of the Lord. This is heaven; and heaven is a Grand Man, into whom the Lord's infinite things may be received, and by whom the Lord's manhood may be reflected in reciprocal love, wisdom and uses. This composite man whom the Lord desires, can only be formed of individual free men; and its grand harmony can only be constituted from their indefinite varieties. The Lord, therefore, not only desires human minds to whom He may give the blessed things of his divine mind; but since He has infinite things to give He desires