universe as well as a natural, for we are to live hereafter in a spiritual universe, and man lives now more or less consciously in its atmospheres, and more distinctly and perceptibly after leaving the world of nature or the natural universe.
We can perceive how this creation was probably effected in the spiritual universe by its reproduction on the plane of the natural. We can see it imaged most perfectly in a single solar system. The sun, as a distinct initial manifestation of creative life on the natural plane, has its three atmospheres or aura, ether, and air, and in these atmospheres creative energy proceeding from the Lord through the sun operates to create a visible material world.
We see that creation proceeding downward by atmospheres to the lowest comes to rest in gross matter—the mineral kingdom; and then we witness its ascent upward in created forms of mineral, vegetable, and animal to man. God, before the assumption of the human, was in this lowest activity of the sun's in nature, for all life must inevitably proceed from its original Creator, God. But He was not there directly, or immediately, but indirectly and mediately.
By this inward projection of Himself through
