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RELIGIOUS and SCIENTIFIC WORKS 
 of Philip A. Emery, M. A., D. D. 
 
 We have issued several works, to which we wi.-h to call 
 your atteution. They are considered by good judges to be 
 "Just what people need;" "Important;"' "Valuable;"" 
 "Instructive and useful;" "Comprehensive," «S:c., «fcc. 
 
 In this illustrated circular we have briefly set f jrth some 
 of the claims, the scope, aim and nature of the works, 
 from which you can form an idea of their characier. 
 
 They contain much religious and scientific truth in a con- 
 densed form ; and the books are written in a non-sectarian 
 spirit, but with much religious fervor and earnestness. 
 
 We believe these works will interest you ; and the more 
 you look into them the clearer will the new ideas l>ecome 
 and the more good will you gather from them. We are 
 sure you will find something to amuse and benefit you. 
 Certainly you can lose nothing by their perusal. 
 
 If any of the ideas should appear untruthful and absurd, 
 please do us the favor to fully and fairly examine theee ap- 
 I)earances before condemning, thus make yourself sure 
 they are false in fact, because facts in nature and theology 
 are often at variance with popular opinion. 
 
 Our author has written more in accordance with an in- 
 ternal key to Nature and Revelation than from accepted 
 opinion, because he has nothing to gain by misleading 
 his readers. To avoid mistakes, he studied the subjects 
 thoroughly from different standpoints till he felt that he 
 was "right before going ahead." 
 
 The chart "Order of Creation" took many years of hard 
 study to make it scientific and consistent. Being new and 
 diff'ercnt from anything ever issued, our author had to 
 work carefully to make it as correct as possible. 
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 -^TWO BOOKS.^ 
 
 ^ poem in Jive partd, 
 
 BOOK FIRST. 
 
 Cause and Order of Creation. 
 
 A WORD PANORAMA OF MATERIAL CREATION: 
 COSMOGONY AND COSMOGRAPHY. 
 
 A71 Epitome in Verse of the Natural Siile of 
 "ARCANA OF NATURE UNVEILED." 
 / By 
 Philip A. Emery M. A. D. D. 
 
 Author of "LandBcapes of History," "Paths of Religion 
 
 and Science," "Diamonds of Spiritual Truths,'' 
 
 etc., etc., etc. 
 
 Cause is Omnipotent, the source of law, 
 
 And "Heaven's First Law is order" consummate. 
 
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 CHICAGO. 9'/2vr- > 
 
 PUBLISHED BY P. A. EMERY^s^i^Gv;; 
 
 1885. -~— --^ 
 
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PREFA0E. 
 
 This little essay in verse makes no pretentions to high 
 literary merit, or fine poetic conception; neither is it ex- 
 pected to win popular favor as a poetic production. Its 
 Kole aim is to present ideas of truths plainly and forcibly, 
 unencumbered with superfluous words, that they may he 
 plainly seen, easily understcod and readily recalled: aiul 
 thus to briug before the vision of its readers a pleasiusj; 
 panorama of the truths more fully illustrated in the '"Ar- 
 cana of Nature Unveiled." 
 
 This is, in fact, an epitome in verse of that work and an 
 excellent introduction to it ; for he who first carefully reads 
 this will be the better prepared to read that with ad- 
 vautajre. 
 
 The original design was to preface the Arcana with this 
 song; but it was found to be too long for that purpose, and 
 we are therefore compelled to issue it separately. We 
 think the reader will be well paid for its ])L'rusal even if he 
 should never read the Arcana. 
 
 Parts first and second contain an account of tiie ord^r 
 of the natural creation as contemplated in our philosophy. 
 
Part third commences the account of the threat apos- 
 tacy of the human race, the provision made for its restora- 
 tion to its original order and purity, which is continued in 
 PART FOURTH, which Contains an account of the opening of 
 the inner sense of the Word, and its revelations concern- 
 ing Heaven and Hell, or the good and bad states of men, 
 and the laws governing them, boih here and there. 
 
 Part fifth is a brief exposition of the first chapter of Gen- 
 esis according to the rules of the Science of Correspond- 
 ence, which shows that the chapter refers only to the spirit- 
 ual re-creation of man, and which shows the Bible to be 
 the Word of God in spirit, and not at all historical, at least 
 in this earlier part of it. " God is a spirit," and His Word 
 is Spirit and not historical, either of the earth or of its 
 peoples. It is interpreted by the symbolism of nature, and 
 we should not mistake the use of the symbol for the natu- 
 ral, which is the fruitful source of conflicting doctrines. 
 The Word has but one teaching, although there are many 
 apparently conflicting statements in the letter of the Bible. 
 These all disappear in the light of the Science of Cor- 
 respondence as illustrated in this part. P. A. E. 
 
 Chicago, 1885. 
 
PRELUDE. 
 
 As the lone peaks, above the mountains high, 
 Lift their white foreheads to the bending sky, 
 Catch the first gleams of coming morning's glow 
 While night still lingers on the plains below ; 
 So does immortal Genius ever stand 
 Above his fellows, and as lonely grand ; 
 So does the trvth illume his watchful eye 
 Long ere the great world knows its advent nigh. 
 
 Below, autumnal hills, rich robed, are seen 
 With orchards laden, red and gold and green, 
 And rich mosaic of many a fruitful field, 
 Where cultured soils abundant harvests yield ; 
 Whose slant sidehills, descending to the stream 
 That leaps and sparkles in the morning gleam, 
 Reflect the later beams of rising day 
 To the deep valley through the shadows gray. 
 So lesser minds, grown rich by culture's art, 
 Their grace and beauty to the world impart. 
 
Rare is the genius tliat o'ertops the race, 
 Broader the culture, the beauty and the grace 
 That softens life and smooths its rugged way 
 For the vast millions. Still the coming day 
 Touches the peaks alone ; not many see 
 The full-orbed sun with unveiled vision free. 
 
 We of the millions gladly hail the light 
 
 That glorifies the lonely mountain height. 
 
 The brightening twilight spreads o'er all the land 
 
 The shadows fade, night's countless phantoms stand 
 
 Revealed, disrobed, and slowly fade away; 
 
 We see our darkness by the light of day. 
 
 Within this little book new light appears. 
 That shall increase through all the coming years. 
 Here superstitions old are dragged to light. 
 The hideous spectres of the ancient night. 
 Here are the mountain tops of thought aglow. 
 While day is breaking on the world below, 
 And Reason once again resumes her sway, 
 Child of Immortal Light and queen of day. 
 
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 PART I. 
 
 EARLY HOURS OF SOlAR CREATION. 
 
 Creation from withiu. First iuinost germinal forms 
 God created from Himself, not from nothing. Nebula. 
 Primary matter gaseous and tiery. 
 
 Central orb filling immensity. Sune first thrown oft' 
 and become centres of planetary systems. Solar System: 
 Planets in like manner thrown ott" from the Sun in a fiery 
 gaseous state. 
 
 Earth an orb of fire-mist. Slow condensation through 
 vast ages. The crust at last formed by the condensing and 
 cooling processes ; land and seas separated ; rank and enor- 
 mous forms of vegetation appear and absorb the carbon 
 of the atmosphere. Then huge reptiles and beasts appear. 
 Gradual refinement of earth, air and waters, and the ap. 
 pearance of higher forms of vegetable and animal life, till 
 finally man is brought forth. 
 
 Immensity of cosmic creation. Wonders and extent 
 of microscopic world. Creative action. The work of the 
 
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 INDEX TO PART I. 
 
 Before all time or space . . page 5 
 Nebula, matter in its first form . . .6 
 The Solar System. Oregin of earth . 6 7 
 
 Wonders of natural creation . . .8 
 
 Microscopic world 8 
 
 Creative action. Work of the atoms . . 8 
 
THE DUAL CREATION. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 EAELY HOURS OF SOLAE CREATION. 
 
 Before all time, when space was not nor man, 
 Nor nniverse without, nor Heavens within. 
 Nor creature great or small; Wisdom Divine 
 To act creative inwardly impelled 
 By Love Divine and will Omnipotent, 
 Moved first in inmost primal forms to works 
 Creative. Deep within Himself conceived, 
 Evolving thence to sep'rate being, all 
 Essential things and creatures brought He forth, 
 And not from nothing made, as some conceive 
 In dreams irrational and crudely vain— 
 For made from nothing, nothing ever is. 
 He from Himself evolves, first, inmost forms 
 Of finest essence wrought, substantial— germs 
 Of all created things,— thence outward forms 
 
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 Builds, fa3liions and outweaves, embodying all 
 In forms material and ultimate. 
 
 Nebula. But first in order thus divinely wrought, 
 Sublimely awful, filling all the void, 
 From Him proceeding forth, the fire-mist came, 
 Essantial nature in its elements, 
 And primal gaseous form, diffused afar. 
 This, slow condensing as it circled round 
 Its mighty centre, bodied forth an orb 
 That filled immensity. This, the first born. 
 Evolving from its fiery rim immense, 
 A solar race brought forth, outnumbering far 
 The sands upon Sahara's burning plain. 
 
 Solar systeir. Out-islanded upon the deep, the sun. 
 Circling obedient round his parent star. 
 In turn evolves his earthly progeny, 
 And planets swing dissevered from his slow 
 Contracting rim. At length the earth is born, 
 An orb of fire-mist gleaming through the night. 
 The willing elements, each to its kind 
 Impelled, gather harmonious, and stand 
 In final order in the orb complete. 
 
Still roll tlie fiery years ; and still the orb, 
 Through ages vast beyond all human ken, 
 Condenses slow. At last the rocky crust 
 Stands firm ; the land appears ; the seas recede j 
 The rocky surface crumbles into soils; 
 The soils produce gigantic herbal forms 
 And mighty forests, mantling all the earth. 
 Which suck the carbon from the murky skies- 
 Huge reptiles wallow in the steaming pools. 
 And beasts of monstrous size roam through the woods 
 Or thunder down the echoing mountain side. 
 Slow pass the ages as the earth refines! 
 The air grows purer and the waters clear, 
 Fruit-bearing trees are scattered through the groves. 
 And grains appear upon the yellow hills ; 
 The lowing herds, the fleecy flocks, the deer, 
 Fleet footed steeds, and every gentle beast, 
 Now come to welcome man to his abode. 
 Then man awakes in earthly paradise, 
 In the sweet dawn of a spring morning wakes, 
 The crown of all created things, the king 
 Of creatures great and small, creation's head, 
 The last, most perfect, crowning work of earth 
 Out-bodied from the living world within. 
 
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 Cosmos. Behold the star decked canopy of night, 
 Where worlds on worlds unnumbered circling shine ! 
 Lift the bold object-glass to the blue vault, 
 Fathom the starry depths from sun to sun, 
 Seek truths not yet unfolded unto man ; 
 Presumptuous, search those awful depths profound 
 For their locked secrets. They shall mock thee still. 
 Point the space sounding tube on high ! Behold 
 Those faint, far distant orbs, whose swift winged lights 
 Now reach us from the flight of thousand years, 
 Shooting two hundred thousand miles in one 
 Short heart beat ) yet lie many millions more 
 Vast suns and systems still beyond the bounds 
 Of utmost vision. Vast, bewildering thought ! 
 Man drunken reels from the abyss profound, 
 Dizzy and faint, dismayed, o'erwhelmed with awe, 
 Back to the earth in deep amazement lost. 
 
 Microcosm. With microscopic view, down looking now, 
 
 Turn we the magic, wonder-working glass 
 1 To realms infinitismal, yet how vast ! 
 
 Behold ! one drop of water teems with life, 
 
 With creatures organized and animate. 
 
 Ten thousand swim its vasty depths within; 
 
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 Huge monsters, prowling for their easy prey, 
 Stir the deep waters, while around them play 
 Unnumhered thousands more. This watery world, 
 A single drop, thus wide outspread, for depth 
 And vastness rivals the great lakes and seas 
 Of earth. 'Tis filled with conscious living things, 
 All perfect in the structure of their forms, 
 With clearest vision, muscles free to play, 
 And heart and lungs, and creature appetite 
 And creature sense j though ninety thousand times 
 Too small for sight of keenest human eye ! 
 
 Creative action. Again we point the microscopic glass 
 To nature's dim and silent realm of life 
 Where atoms ply their secret masonry. 
 And here they first unite to build the land ; 
 By millions gather in a grain of sand. 
 Spread the broad continents from shore to shore. 
 Uplift the islands from the ocean's floor, 
 Pile the high mountains to the bending sky, 
 And under all lay earth's firm masonry. 
 Here busy atoms weave the fibrous plant. 
 With cells and tubes and spiral conduits small, 
 Crowding their millions in a single inch ! 
 
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 'Tis thus vast forests rise o'er all the lands, 
 Reared by tliose unseen, ever-bnsy bands : 
 And still more wonders we may here heboid ; 
 They shine in silver and they bnrn in gold) 
 In rarest gems they brilliantly combine, 
 In diamonds sparkle and in rubies shine; 
 They rise in perfume from the flowers of spring, 
 And wind their silvery pipes in birds that sing. 
 
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 Order of Qreahion, or ^welve pcjes of 
 Earbb ^' Man. 
 
PART II. 
 
 THE TWELVE CREATIVE STEPS. 
 
 Mathematics the foimdation of creation and frame or 
 auatomy of all things of the twelve steps. 
 
 Chemistry the first step. Chemical action combines 
 the gases forming the base of earthly forms. This action 
 the effect of internal or spiritual action. Geology the 
 second step. The rock formations are the ribs of Earth. 
 Botany the third step. Disintegration of the rocks form 
 soils on which vegetation rests. Radiology the fourth 
 step. The lowest, faintest form of anilnal life. Ento- 
 mology the fifth step. Insect life coming in as conditions 
 become higher in the earth. Ichthyology the sixth step. 
 Fishes represent sciences and systems of truth. Her- 
 petology the seventh step. Reptiles represent the appe- 
 tites of the sensuous nature of man. Ornithology the 
 eighth step. Birds of all kinds- represent thoughts of men, 
 good and bad, high and low. Quadrupeds the ninth step. 
 Represent the affections of men, good and bad. Mon- 
 keys the tenth step. Ts earer man but lacking in the moral 
 and rational qualities that constitute the human soul. 
 Apes the eleventh step. These have beeu supposed the 
 progenitors of man, a fallacy arising from want of spiritual 
 insight and knowledge. Man the twelfth step. Not 
 derived from the animal kingdom, but s\iperinduced upon 
 it as the final consiimmation of the creative work. 
 
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 INDEX TO PART II. 
 
 Mathematics the foundation of creation 
 
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 Chemistry, the activity of life 
 
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 Geology forming the earth crust 
 
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 Botany first formative life 
 
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 Radiology first sign of voluntary life 
 
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 Entomology, insect life 
 
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 Ichthyology, fishes 
 
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 Herpetology, reptiles, snakes 
 
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 Ornithology, birds and fowls 
 
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 Quadrupeds ... 
 
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 Monkeys ... 
 
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 Apes . . ... 
 
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 Man the end and consummation of creation. 20 
 
THE DUAL CREATION. 
 
 PART IT. 
 
 THE TWELVE CREATIVE STEPS. 
 
 Mathematics.— First in pure lines, angles and circles see 
 Forms geometrical and crystaline, 
 Building the frame-work of whatever is. 
 These form the hase and continent of all 
 Created things, the pure anatomy 
 Of every form on every plane of earth, 
 And underlie the tinrelve creative steps. 
 
 Chemistry.— And first, the gases wonderouslycomhine. 
 In action chemical, this base, and rich 
 Material to form, from which to build 
 All the vast multitude cf earthly things. 
 This action springs from the creative power 
 Of Love Divine through "Wisdom's guiding hand. 
 As oxygen's the fire-life principle 
 Of earth, so Love Divine the only life 
 
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 Of all things is ; tlie life of life 
 
 In every less degree, on every plane 
 
 Of nature, and in all the spirit realms. 
 
 But only through eternal laws, ordained, 
 
 Do these "Four elements, in one firm hand, 
 
 Give form to life and build the sea and land." 
 
 These outward things take form, each from its own 
 
 Especial cause and inner elements. 
 
 Which thus combined, through inner laws ordained, 
 
 G-ive form to all the souls of men and things, 
 
 And build up first the spirit sea and land. 
 
 Geology. The second step the rock formation is, 
 Which ribs the fiery heart of earth, and gives 
 A firm foundation to the foot of man, 
 And thus completes what chemistry began. 
 So truth divine sustains the finite soul. 
 And is the "rock" 'gainst which the waters roll ^ 
 And tempests ^ beat in vain ; for on this rock 
 Who stands, shall bear unmoved the tempest's shock, 
 And so the earth the grand result remains, 
 Of mountains, rivers, valleys, hills and plains 
 In the cause world, within external things. 
 Whence all the life of man and nature springs. 
 
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 Botany. In the third step behold the " slender vine, 
 Life's golden thread, in endless circles twine." 
 In leaf, bud, blossom, and in fruit we see 
 The qualities of man, the human tree ) 
 His thoughts, afections, and his ripened deeds— 
 These are his fruits whence good or ill proceeds. 
 "The pulpy acorn ere it swells contains 
 The oak's vast branches in its milky veins." 
 So man, in spirit forms, holds in his breast 
 The vasty all of nature, deep impressed. 
 
 Radiology. In the fourth step the signs of insect life 
 Faintly appear ; the first faint throb is felt 
 Of that incoming fire which animates 
 The brute creation, and is now first seen 
 In radiates and mollusks, creatures low 
 In conscious life, and simply organized. 
 These typify the tentacles, put forth 
 In man from his afi'eotions nearest earth, 
 Forth feeling for their elemental food. 
 
 Entomology. A higher life, outflowing from the fount 
 Of bebg, reached as still we upward mount 
 i To the fifth Btep, its higher form displays ^ 
 
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 In insects sporting in the summer rays. 
 These typify a higher life in man, 
 Evolving into thought, wherein we scan 
 A consciousness of want from instinct hlind 
 Emerge | not in the nobler powers of mind, 
 But in its buzaing, crawling, low desires. 
 That spring from nature's slowly kindling fires. 
 
 Ichthyology. Creation's pathway upward rises till 
 We reach the sixth step, midway up the hill 
 Of opening life. Here finny creatures swim 
 In the bright lakes or shady rivers dim. 
 Sport in the seas or dive to unknown deeps 
 Where mystery her secret palace keeps. 
 Thus principles are formed within the mini; 
 Truths formulated, organized, combined 
 Into a form symmetrical and free; 
 The sciences of every known degree ; 
 These are embodied forms in truth's great sea. 
 And these are monstrous or divinely fair ; 
 As false and evil, or as good they are. 
 
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 Herpetology. On the low shores in reptiles now we find 
 The seventh step ; toads, snakes of every kind, 
 
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 The deadly scorpion, the crocodile 
 
 That haunt the swamps where southern summers smile, 
 
 The sacred lizard of the ancient Nile.^ 
 
 These to man's appetites resemhlance hear, 
 
 His lowest nature ; all its passions are 
 
 Prone to the dust and feed on serpents' food 
 
 And where they rule, rejecting higher good. 
 
 In appetite and love of sluggish ease. 
 
 In selfish greed and cruelty, in these 
 
 The serpent tempts him still, as once of old 
 
 In Eden, as in sacred story told. 
 
 Ornitliology. Up to the eighth rise we on rapid wings 
 Of every fowl that flies and bird that sings. 
 The eagle soaring tc the sun on high, 
 The dove's lamenting and the night bird's cry, 
 The raven's croak, the robin's organ song 
 At dawn or twilight, and the lesser throng 
 That flit and sing the fragrant shades among ; 
 Like these are thoughts melodious and bright, 
 Or clamorous and hoarse as birds of night. 
 As high themes move them, free and unconfmed, 
 Or passions clamor in the darkened mind. 
 
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 Quadrupeds. In quadrupeds a higher life indeed, 
 The nintli step brings. The fleecy flocks that feed 
 On the slant hills and sunny mountain glades, 
 The wild heast lurking in deep forest shades, 
 The lazy herds that crop the fragrant plain, 
 The horse umtamed and innocent of rein. 
 The fleet wild deer, the hound upon his track, 
 The panther crouchirg for the sly attack— 
 These represent all qualities of mind, 
 And all afi'ections, that in man we find | 
 The high, the noble, gentle, pure and clean. 
 The cunning, crafty, treacherous and mean; 
 The savage, cruel, fierce, as tigers are. 
 Or as the famished wolf or mountain bear. 
 
 Monkeys. Upon the tenth step, still ascending, we 
 Yet higher forms of life in monkeys see i 
 In form and feature mere allied to man, 
 In manners "aping" well the human plan, 
 Yet lacking elements that form the soul) 
 The moral sense, the conscience, self-oontrol 
 That springs from reason, and the power to tell 
 The right from wrong, the true from false as well, 
 And the high sense of things invisible. 
 
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 Apes. A single step before we reach the plain 
 "Where manhood stands revealed. In apes again, 
 Upon th'eleventh step, the link we find 
 That joins all nature to the human kind. 
 In fjrm like man, but not in mind and soul. 
 They still, like monkeys, lack all self-oontrol 
 And reason, and the sense of wrong and right. 
 Led by desire alone, and appetite, 
 They have no consciousness of good or ill, 
 Ifo self-direction, freedom of the will, 
 Nor sense of justice, mercy, truth and love, 
 No spirit life all other brut33 above. 
 They have no power the Infinite to touch 
 "With the most distant thought ; for not so much 
 As a faint starbeam does their night befriend i 
 They question not of origin or end. 
 Of cause, efi'ect, or life, or death to come ; 
 To science deaf and of tradition dumb ; 
 Know naught of law, nor human prudence heed 
 But blindly follow where desire shall lead. 
 These Darwin called progenitors cf man, 
 "Wherein faint dawn of reason first began, 
 Because gorilas aped men's manners, so 
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 Of those above them in the social sphere. 
 'Tis thus that many fallacies appear 
 As noble truths, to superiicial view, 
 Till deeper insight shows them still untrue. 
 
 Man. Upon the twelfth step stand we now at last, 
 The week of slow ascending epochs past. 
 In each ascent, to reach the end sublime, 
 Have passed long ages of our earthly time. 
 The seventh day dawns, •* the home of man complete, 
 In saored peace ; the air is balmy sweet. 
 The terraced slope of life, below outspread, 
 Awaits its apex, crown and living head. 
 And earth and nature stand revealed to sight 
 All pure and perfect, beautiful and bright. 
 In sunbeams, souled each by an inner flame 
 Of life, a heaven-born human spirit came^ 
 Forth from the inmost paradise of God i "^ 
 Touched earth, his white feet on the fragrant sod, 
 Drew to himself, of essences most rare. 
 An outward form complete, divinely fair,— 
 And man, the child, awoke,— a primal pair.'' 
 
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 ^ poem in give JartA, 
 
 BOOK SECOND. 
 
 The Counterpart ot* Niitiirai Creation. 
 
 A AVOKD PANORAMA OF SriRIT CltKATION — RE- 
 CREATION OR REDEMPTION. 
 
 An Epitome in Verse of the Spirit Side of 
 
 "ARCANA OF NATURE UNVEILED." 
 
 By 
 
 Philip A. K.mery M. A. D. D. 
 
 Mark thy footsteps whither teudiuj^, 
 Scan thy deeds and know their ending, 
 Love with service interblendino;; 
 
 And along thy path will shine 
 Truth for gnideance and amending, 
 
 Streaming from the Word Divine. 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 PUBLISHED BY P. A. EMERY. 
 
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 PART TTT. 
 
 PEIMEVAL MAN-THE FALL-REDEMPTION. 
 
 Review. The man of the first age, pure, innocent and 
 open to the inner world. Selfhood: its gradual growth 
 until it attained monstrous proportions. The Fall. Na- 
 ture falling through 83'mpathy with man, the origin of all 
 t'vils in natural world. 
 
 Man becomes monstrous in soul and debased in body. 
 The inner soul is closed. The flood of falsities and evils 
 overwhelms the race so that goodness and truth perish. 
 A remnant saved, symbolized by Noah and his sons in the 
 ark. God's voice heard no more within. Nature ceases 
 to be living to man. Utter spiritual darkness. 
 
 The Star of Bethlehem; the Magi; the Babe; the an- 
 nouncement to the shepherds. Immanuel. God formed 
 WITHIN the soul, and come forth in man, the real incarna- 
 tion and salvation. 
 
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 INDEX TO PART III. 
 
 Review. Primeval man 
 The fall of man 
 The flood, continued decline 
 The Star of Bethlehem 
 Incarnation, salvation 
 
THE DUAL CREATION. 
 
 PART III. 
 
 PRIMEVAL MAN-THE FALL-EEDEMPTION. 
 
 R.evie"w. As up creation's steps we slow ascendi 
 Each growing thing, each living creature formed, 
 From age to age more complicated grows. 
 More wonderfully made, and organized 
 With still increasing skill, more formed to meet 
 The wants of higher life, the uses of 
 A higher creatureship, and more allied 
 To man the crown of all. Then standing forth 
 Complete, in form incarnate purity, 
 And in the soul a living child of God, 
 Came man, formed in His image, full of truth 
 And innocenca, in the "most ancient times." 
 Unfallen nature was an open book 
 To him, divinely writ in living forms 
 Symbolic of his inner self, and thence. 
 As imaged in himself, of things Divine. 
 
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 In bliss he lived, with food divinest fed| 
 
 In social love and public service rich; 
 
 In private joys and innocent delights 
 
 And purity and peace and sacrei use 
 
 The ages passed. By slow developm3nt 
 
 The self-hood grew with unpercei?ed increase, 
 
 And virtue weakened with a slow decline, 
 
 Until his self-hood, dominant become 
 
 And monstrous, claimed his service to itself 
 
 Alone ; to which he weakly yielded, and he fell, 
 
 And lost his manhood in his baser self. 
 
 He fell : ajid nature, sympathizing, bound 
 
 To him by strong, inseverable ties, 
 
 Sunk with him. Beasts absorbed his bodiad crimes ; 
 
 His venomed passions, cruelties and hates. 
 
 His solitary selfishness, and grew 
 
 Morose and savage, pitiless and fierce, 
 
 Devouring weaker prey, as men devour 
 
 Each other still. The soil, impregnate with 
 
 The virus of his sins, rank poison grew. 
 
 Thistles and thorns and every hurtful herb i 
 
 The elements, pierced to the heart by sin. 
 
 Destructive grew and dangerous to man) 
 
 The sea, tempestuous | a fevered marsh 
 
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 A desert waste the evil blighted land. 
 He fell; and downward still descending, whelmed 
 
 In evil, falsity and monstrous crimes, 
 
 He lost all human qualities ^ in deep 
 
 Depravity. Thus perished honor high, 
 
 And righteousness, and that nobility 
 
 Which scorns deceit and all duplicity) 
 
 And love of right and justice, truth and law; 
 
 And grand humility that spurns alike 
 
 A craven or a supercilious soul; 
 
 That, unpretending, walks erect with men. 
 
 And bows in reverence at the feet Divine. 
 The Flood. The inner life declined, and fainter grew 
 
 The feeble flame within, until, at last, 
 
 'Twas quenched, in falsity submerged. 
 
 And man, th'apostate, perished in the flood.'' 
 
 A seed. 'Scaped from the flood a feeble few remained, 
 Saved as a seed to sow the earth anew j - 
 The hideous wreck of a humanity 
 Once glorious and pure. Saved from the flood. 
 That swept the human earth, yet lost to all 
 That makes man noble, beautiful and free, 
 Forth from the ark they came, Noah and his sons,"' 
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 A purely sensuous race. Silent the voice 
 Of G-od within the ruined halls of life; 
 Eayless the gloom that filled the dome of thought 
 Where Wisdom erst had reigned in light supreme. 
 Deaf to sweet nature now the race became, 
 Her silvery voices speechless to the soul. 
 Woman, the queen, the slave of man was made, 
 And holy love forsook the brutish race.^' 
 
 Thus groped the race in death's dark-shadowed vale. 
 
 Descending still in inner savagery, 
 
 Though dawning science, like the rising moon,'^ 
 
 Shed feeble light across the desert wastes. 
 
 And beautified the outer forms of life. 
 
 Upon the dial of human destiny 
 
 Time's fateful finger points the midnight hour ! 
 
 When woman falls, the lowest point is reached 
 
 In man's apostacy. 
 
 Descending now, 
 A dense, impenetrable cloud, outspread 
 'Twixt earth below and heaven's irradiant blue, 
 Settled and rested on the human earth,'-* 
 A darkness tangible, that lay on plain 
 And mountain, valley and the moaning sea;— 
 
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 Kor moon nor star tMs awful gloom coiild pierce.'^ 
 
 In tMa our last and great extremity, 
 
 Kind Heaven helield and, pitying, came to save. 
 
 Tien piercing ttrongli the horror hannted gloom, 
 Tlie star of Bethlehem arose to view; 
 A bright, berLi^iia:n.t orh. whose golden beams 
 To outer vision were iuvisible, 
 Yet seen by inner sight, a spirit star.-' 
 It, inner sighted men observing well, 
 Eeioicing, followed from the East, the land 
 Of sages and the magi old. This star 
 Before them went, conducting, till they saw 
 The Child Divine -^ within a manger laid, 
 With horses of the staU and gentle kine. 
 In infant form, God's Innocence behold I 
 " The Lamb of God," who takes away all sin3 
 By innocence of life. Him see the men 
 Of insight, worshiping ; and bring their stores. 
 Presenting gold and frankincense and myrrh. 
 
 Fot to the king came the winged messengers, 
 Not to the priests or scribes or doctors learned, 
 
 TSoz to the temple where the outward rite 
 
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 Alone remained, when charity was dead; 
 But to the shepherds, who, in fields by night, 
 Their flockB kept, watchful. " Peace on earth, 
 Good will to man," the heavenly heralds sung : 
 G-ood will to man ! God's love alone prevails ; 
 His love alone, though venomed hate may coil 
 In every heart against the sacred Child, 
 Against returning golden hearted Love, 
 Against white-handed innocence in man. 
 Against the reign of justice, mercy, truth 
 And charity.— Good will to man! He comes, 
 IMMANUEL, the God of Heaven with man ; 
 His blood, the holy truth divine, to shed; 
 His body for the bread of life to break,-' 
 That substance-virtue-"' shall, proceeding forth 
 From Him into the inmost souls of men, 
 Bring full salvation. He, the Teacher, said, 
 " Except my body ye shall eat, my blood 
 Shall drink, no life have ye." Christ in us formed, 
 To utter transformation of the soul. 
 And of the life, and of the outward form, 
 Through inner giving of Himself to man: 
 This is salvation by the blood of Christ. 
 
■^BOOK TWO.ts 
 
 ^^mw s'®wsi^:E 
 
 ^be Sealed Bool<; Opened. 
 Re|oiGinc|, 
 
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 PART IV. 
 
 THE SEALED BOOK OPENED-EEJOIOINa. 
 
 The opening of the Spiritual Sense is prefigured by 
 the transfiguration on the mount. What the inner Word 
 reveals. The mysteries after death. 
 
 Spiritual life real, the substance of substantial things. 
 Life one and from One only. Heaven as an inmost state 
 18 God in the soul. The heavenly world the outbirth from 
 the heavenly condition of the soul. Every one provided 
 for according to his service. 
 
 Hell IS SELF. Objective hell, an outbirth from the 
 inward conditions. All from self separated from God. 
 
 Outward objects the effects of inward forces. Nature 
 centred in man ; man, unfallen, the image of God. Adam 
 named creatures from a perception of their qualities. The 
 INNER SENSE. The key. Correspondence. 
 
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 INDEX TO PART IV. 
 
 Opeuiiigof the Word 
 
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 New Lij^ht. Trauefiguratiou 
 
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 Revelatiou. Inuer light 
 
 33 
 
 Spiritual world 
 
 34 
 
 Heaveu. Heavenly world 
 
 35 
 
 Worship in Heaven 
 
 36 
 
 Hell, real and objective 
 
 37 
 
 Natural world 
 
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 Inner sense of Word 
 
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 THE DUAL CREATION. 
 
 PART IV. 
 
 THE SEALED BOOK OPENED. 
 
 Rejoice. Let joys descend from realms of pure delight, 
 A new world opens to the inner sight; 
 A new life flowing from the world within 
 Brings resurrection from the death of sin. 
 Hope lifts her radiant forehead to the sky 
 And sings, "Earth's full redemption now draws nigh 
 See where immortal glories downward stream! 
 Earth ! God will his promises redeem ! 
 He giveth power to walk the narrow way 
 By inward light, still brightening into day; 
 And man in truth and innocence shall live; 
 A new life will a new salvation give. 
 Be not dismayed though long the night appears, 
 The day approaches, cast away thy fears; 
 E'en now a rising light begins to shine 
 Into all hearts, it is the truth divine." 
 
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 A no-w light beaming from the holy "Word 
 
 Dispels the gloom of doubt, for Christ, the Lord, 
 
 Opens the book, its inner sense reveals j 
 
 The Lamb -•■ prevails to ope' the seven seals. 
 
 ITo longer fear when falsity assails, 
 
 The living Word His glorious face unveils 
 
 To inner sight. The Truth, the Man behold ! 2 
 
 Transfigured now, as on the mount of old ; '-'" 
 
 His face -^ bright beaming as the noonday sun, 
 
 His garments "-' ' as the lining light outspun 
 
 From inward glory. With Him new appears 
 
 The Word historic -^^ from the ancient years, 
 
 And Word prophetic, -^ these in spirit here 
 
 Are one, united; and now disappear 
 
 Their separate forms ; the inner Word divine 
 
 Embracing all, and all in one combine 
 
 In unity. Faith grasped the promise then, 
 
 And prophesy, as given unto men i 
 
 Now its fulfilment see. Like Peter - ' bow, 
 
 And pray the vision may be lasting now. 
 
 A tabernacle rear thy heart within,-"' 
 
 Emptied of self and purified from sin | 
 
 This gracious guest will aye abide with thee, 
 
 If from thyself thou shalt be wholly free.'^' 
 
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 liO more the cloud shall overshadow now •" 
 The inner word or dim its beaming brow. 
 This open book hath no man power to close ; 
 With inward truth the holy record glows; 
 Its heart is all a flame of Love Divine, 
 The living fire '"^ by which its pages shine. 
 
 Revelation. This holy Word now shining from within, 
 Dispels the gloom of death and shows that sin 
 Alone has power to kill, the soul destroy, '■^"' 
 For sin is death ; but God is Love and joy, 
 And life eternal) He is inmost Heaven. 
 To those who love eternal life is given; 
 For right in deed is love, full, consummate 
 And ripened into fruit, its finished state. 
 G-od in the active virtues e'er abides ; 
 For right in deed a soul of worship hides, ^ 
 And love, its heart within. The latent thought 
 In deepest darkness hid, before 'tis wrought 
 To conscious motive or a felt desire, 
 Or kindled into flames by passion's fire, 
 Are seen by Him in full accomplishment; 
 The secret principle, motive, intent 
 And outward deed are one; to men are known 
 The ripened fruits of principle alone. 
 
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 This light reveals to us, poor erring mortals, 
 
 The mysteries that lie beyond death's portals, 
 
 "Which eye hath seen not nor the heart conceived, 
 
 Nor the most ardent faith of man believed. 
 
 It shows that things of spirit life are real. 
 
 And not a mere intangible ideal; 
 
 The substance of substantial things they are 
 
 And forms of forms, beyond conception fair; 
 
 Beyond all nature, real, tangible, intense 
 
 And living, to the spirit's finer sense! 
 
 Thus mountains, plains and valleys there are seen, 
 
 And rivers winding the bright hills between. 
 
 And slumberous seas of never failing peaoe. 
 And lake and isles ; and songs that never cease. 
 In fragrant groves of pine and cedars rare. 
 And spices— trees that fruit and blossoms bear 
 Unceasingly,— the hymn ■'■'' of worship, heard 
 From wind and waterfall ani happy bird. 
 That all created things are forms aloie. 
 Receiving life, not lives themselves, not one; 
 That life is one, the same in each degree. 
 Where life is seen, in man or beast or tree. 
 From Him who IS, who was and is to be, 
 The only living and creative ONE; 
 All this and more, abundantly is shown. 
 
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 Heaven, as an inmost state, is God alone, 
 
 Filling the heart, the mind, the frame, as shown, 
 And all the senses. Thus a deep delight. 
 All through the busy day and restful night. 
 Infills the being to its utmost rim, 
 And the pure soul is all alive in Him. 
 
 The heavenly world is from the inward states 
 Of those in Heaven this inward Word relates i ''-'^ 
 From all the thoughts, affections, loves and spheres 
 Of Angels there. This truth from this appears i 
 That life and substance, flowing in from God 
 Through them, enters the ground, the blooming sod, 
 The atmospheres j and all things springing thence 
 Assume the forms of beauty, innocence 
 And love, the blessed state of those in Heaven. 
 Thus unto them a dwelling place is given 
 In strict accord with each one's real states. 
 Through whom pure substance, flowing forth, creates 
 A home so perfectly, completely his, 
 It like a greater form, outbodied, is.-^" 
 So, as his use, his office and degree 
 Of service is his residence will be. 
 One rich and stately as some royal hall 
 Or princely palace with translucent wall 
 
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 Of living marble, ample porticos, 
 Its dim luxurious chambers of repose 
 With beds of living bloom, and flaming spires 
 And roof effulgent with love's living fires ; 
 With parks and lawns and streams that ever sing, 
 And gardens fragrant with the flowers of spring 
 And fruits of autumn, summer midway seen 
 In ripening fruits and robes of living green : 
 This for the one in social virtues high 
 And uses great, wherein all riches lie. 
 For humbler use, a cottage by the stream, 
 Reposeful, golden in the evening beam, 
 Or gay in morning's opening splendor seen, 
 Embowered in flowery vines— scarlet and green; 
 Where love is felt a palpitating fire 
 Or sparkling wine within ; and each desire 
 Flames up to &od, an incense of the heart, 
 And sensed all through that home in every part 
 As rare perfume by every dweller there.'" 
 Woi'ship. At morn ascends the hymns of prayer. 
 When day comes greeting o'er the orient hills ; 
 And every heart with inmost rapture thrills 
 At every thought of God ; from morn till e'en 
 All service as divinest good is seen. 
 
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 Hell. But from the life of those in all the hells ^^ 
 This law conditioiis opposite compels j 
 For hell is self. All outward things are forms 
 Of its own passions in their calms and storms ; 
 For o'er the harren lava covered plains 
 There often roar the fiery hurricanes; 
 And there are caverns dark where bats abide, 
 Where serpents hiss and frightful dragons hide; 
 And burning pools of deep abysmal fire, 
 That spring from fierce, insatiable desire, 
 The quenchless fire, the worm that never dies, 
 Self in its torturing thirst. Deep curses rise 
 And shrieks and cries filled with a wild despair, 
 And noise of conflict on the frightened air i 
 These, these, reflect the states of awful woe 
 That from the G-odless human heart must flow. 
 Whose thoughts and passions thus objective shown, 
 Are but himself beyond himself outgrown. 
 
 Effects. 'Tis seen that all things on the natural plane 
 Are outbirths from within, while that again 
 Takes form and substance from the One Divine, 
 Whom man now images in semblance fine- 
 Sin and its monstrous effigies alone 
 Excepted— thus in man is nature shown. 
 
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 Tlius Adam knew to name each living creature, 
 Not from its outward form or shape or feature, 
 But qualities, the which each name expressed, 
 For they reflected were in his own breast. 
 The inner sense. These outward forms convey- 
 To him who reads hy inward light what they, 
 In man, in Heaven, in Grod, all represent; 
 To sensuous minds, with outward things content, 
 They serve all outward needs and nourishment. 
 Thus all may food receive from Truth Divine, 
 Which holy is in every word and line- 
 Let want direct, cast not thy pearls to swine— 
 The hungry soul alone, of all, wants bread ; 
 He, only, who seeks guidance can be led. 
 
 The key. This law, this science is a key 
 That opens Scripture, solves each mystery, 
 Makes nature luminous with holy light, 
 And shows G-od present, to the inner sight, 
 In all things. He who thus the Word shall read, 
 Will surely find a deeper sense indeed 
 In the old story of creation's dawn | 
 The truths of man's regeneration, drawn 
 From this symbolic Word. 
 
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PART y. 
 
 RE-CREATION-INTERNAL SENSE OF GEN. I. 
 
 The accouut given in this chapter it? not of natural cre- 
 ation, but is symbolical accoiint of the creation of the new 
 creature or nature in man. The seven days are seven dis- 
 tinct states or conditions of mind and heart, from absolute 
 darkness and carelessness, through conviction, conversion 
 and sanctification to full light, life and harmony with 
 God, a new creation. 
 
 The first \erse is a general statement of the subject of 
 the chapter. The second verse commences with a descrip- 
 tion of the state of the natural man and of God's first work 
 within him, preparing him for the light which is to come. 
 The figures in the right hand margin refer to the verse of 
 which the meaning is being given. 
 
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 First daiy of creation 41 
 
 Second day. Third day .... 4*2 
 
 Fourth day . .... 4:? 
 
 Fifth day. Sixth day . . 44 
 
 Seventh day. It is finished 4-^ 
 
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 THE DUAL CREATION. 
 
 PART \. 
 
 EE-OEEATION-INTERNAL SENSE OF GEN I. 
 
 First day. In this first verse "heaven " the church is. 
 or man's higher 1 
 
 Mind internal, in this deep internal meaning, 
 And so " earth" his mind external. So his inmost 
 States are heaven, earth his outer, in this meaning, 
 In which consciousness is living, in which all things 
 Are of nature j and the " faces of the deep " are 2 
 
 The bad passions of the creature, man, and things he 
 Knows are "faces of the waters," things he knows of 
 Truth and goodness; these are gathered, stored within his 
 Deep interiors, and preserved for his salvation 
 By God's never failing mercy, till the day of 
 His temptation, when the powers of evil gather 
 To assail him and to battle 'gainst the good and 
 Truth within him, God then brings to his remembrance 
 Things he knew of truth and goodness, that before were 
 Deeply hidden, that with them he may do battle 
 
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 'Gainst the falsities injected by the fearful 
 Powers of evil; and His mercy never failing, 
 Ever waiting, ever ready to restore him 
 To his lost primeval manhood, watches ever 
 For salvation. "Let light he," He said, creative, 3 
 And light shone within the darkness, Truth is light by 
 Inward meaning, and the want of truth is darkness. 
 He divided thus between them, as in mercy 4 
 
 He moved in him ; and the light was day within him. 5 
 And the evening and the morning were the first day. 
 
 Second day. In his darkness and confusion he knew 
 nothing 
 Of the truths in his internals as they slumbered, 
 Till G-od's spirit moved upon them in His mercy 
 Everlasting. Then to separate between them 
 And the outer things of nature, a firmament 6,7 
 
 He extended twixt the waters aild the waters, 
 Or the truths of goodness in him, and of science 
 In his outer memory and understanding. 
 This expanse then called He heaven, man's internal. 8 
 And the evening and the morning were the second day. 
 
 Third day. All these knowledges called waters under 
 h.eaven, 9 
 
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 Were then gathered all together into one place, 
 Making truth in one grand complex, as a system 
 And a science, of the goods and truths within him, 
 Coming down from his internals ; and the man was 
 Conscious of them in his memory external. 
 Thus the gathered truths of science He called, seas 10 
 Man himself was earth and dry land. Then the seed He 
 Sowed within him, tender grass and herb and fruit tree. 
 And the evening and the morning were the third day. 13 
 
 Fourth day. Love, the great light in the heavens, 
 
 man's internal, 14-16 
 
 In the will He set and 'stahlished. Faith the lesser 
 
 Now arising shines beside it in the mind, the 
 Understanding, giving light in man's internal. 
 These for changes, night and morning, spring and 
 
 autumn, ' 
 
 Set in heaven ; marking progress and advancement 
 Of his faith and love increasing from the evening 
 To the morning. These were set thus in the heavens 17 
 Light to give on man, the earthly ground for grass and 
 Herb to grow on— goods not animated in him-^ 
 And his day and night to govern in their progress, 18 
 And distinguish well between the light and darkness I 
 
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 In his will and understanding. And the evening 
 And the morning, alternating, were the fourth day. 19 
 
 Fifth day. Man now first begins to live when love and 
 
 faith are 
 Shining in him and illuminating all things 
 Of his outward life and actions. Now the waters 
 Bring forth creatures, living creatures. Thus his truths 
 
 have 20-22 
 
 Brought forth living deeds of goodness with the life of 
 Love within them and the light of faith upon them. 
 Fouls that fly above the earth are his high thoughts in 
 His interiors, his high thoughts of God and nature, 
 Love and mercy, life and duty and good service 
 To his fellows. Him God blesses i his endeavors, 
 All the living things within him, all the living 
 Thoughts he thinketh, all the living deeds he doeth ; 
 These He blesses, makes them fruitful, and increasing. 
 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 23 
 
 Sixth day. Man advancing and ascending ever rises. 
 All his deeds spring from afPection. By the wild beast 
 Of the earth are signified his low affections 24, 25 
 
 And the pleasures of the body. Beast or cattle 
 
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 Signify his good affections, love and mercy, 
 
 Innocence and truth and justice ruling in him. 
 
 He becomes a living man in the true manhood. 
 
 Such as God designed he should be, His own image, 26 
 
 In his will and understanding, his interiors. 
 
 In the form of his affections pure and noble. 
 
 God now gives him full dominion over all things 
 
 Of himself, his outer nature and his inner ; 
 
 Scientifics in his memory external, 28 
 
 Thoughts aspiring like the fowls of heaven above him; 
 
 Over all his new affections in externals, 
 
 High affections in internals, love and mercy, 
 
 Truth and justice as extended to his fellows ; 
 
 Aspirations of his spirit in affection 
 
 To the Father Universal, Everlasting. 
 
 Now the inner man, perfected, stands Gcd's image. 
 
 In the will and understanding re-created. 
 
 Him God blesses, makes him fruitful, gives dominion 
 
 Over earth, his outer nature, to subdue it 
 
 And enrich with truth and goodness j then provides 29 
 
 Seed of herb and fruit of fruit tree for his eating, 
 
 Truths of uses and affections ; also gives him 
 
 Herb for wild beast, fowls of heaven, creeping things, 
 
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 Food for his external nature. His creation 30 
 
 Thus completed, He sees good, for His own goodness 
 Fills the creature man, the earth, in re-creation, 31 
 And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 
 
 Seventh day. It is finished, the creation is completed. 
 God now resteth. Man the creature with Him resteth 
 From his labor in subduing all his nature. 
 From his long and sore combating strong temptations, 
 From the pains of dying nature slain within him. 
 Rest is action in the Sabbath everlasting, 
 Is the harmony of action as it runneth 
 Through the tuneful frame and spirit unresisting. 
 In the uses and the pleasures of the New Life, 
 Flowing out in all its fullness to the neighbor. 
 
 It is finished. Man is slain and resurrected 
 In his spirit, from the deadly swoon of nature 
 In the life of his old self-hood egoistic. 
 To the New Life, to his manhood in the image 
 And the likeness of the Father Universal, 
 Just as G-od designed he should be from beginning. 
 
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REMARKS. 
 
 It is often difficult to so express certaiu ideas that they 
 will be plaiu to the ordinary reader who is not already fa- 
 miliar with the subject treated of, owing to the fact that 
 each branch of science, philosophy or morals has a lan- 
 guage in some degree peculiarly its own, with wiiich the 
 mass of readers are not supposed to be familiar. 
 
 When an author, therefore, enters a field of ideas other 
 than of the ordinary concerns of life, he may be easily mis- 
 understood by the common reader (for whose advantage, 
 especially, this book was written), and his book denounced 
 as "nonsense, humbug," etc., and himself a semi-hinatic, 
 a man of one idea; which may, perhaps be the condition of 
 the reader instead of the writer. "Those who live in glass 
 houses, "etc. There are more weapons than the boome- 
 rang that return to smite the thrower. 
 
 To assist the reader to a clear understanding of our mean- 
 ing, certaiu explanatory notes have been given, reference 
 to which will be found by figures in the text, correspond- 
 ing to those in the notes, on the page indicated. 
 
 Publisher. 
 
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NOTES. 
 
 1. 2 And is the rock 'gainst which the waters roll. p. j4 
 
 Th-3 waters h re signify falsities or erroneous doctrines 
 
 whi :h coine as a flood to destroy the structure of doctrines 
 
 bu'.lt upon thj rock of truth. So also tempest in next line. 
 
 4 The seventh day dawns, p 20 
 
 This does not refer to the seventh day of Genesis, or re- 
 creation, but to the completion of the earth as a habitation 
 for man, when all things have become perfected in readi- 
 ness for his abode. 
 
 ^ A heaven-horn spirit came. ib. 
 
 The idea here conveyed is, that the human spirit origin- 
 ates with God and descends to earth to receive the natural 
 degree of man through human generation ; that it does not 
 originate in and w'ith the natural form; and that it takes 
 nothing from the receptacle into which it descends but the 
 natural degree of the spirit and the corporeal form : that it 
 does not derive its hnmanity from its natural parents, but 
 from the Divine Father of spirits, and that it lives and de- 
 velops from within, being perfected in its psychic form 
 prior to it? descent into natural generation. 
 
 « Forth from tlie inmost paradise of (jod. il). 
 
 From tlie bosom of the Creative Fatlier, descending suc- 
 eessively through the celestial, spiritual and natural or 
 ultimate heavenly worlds into its floral rec(^ptacl(" i)i 
 the midst of the earthly paradise prepared for it. 
 
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 7 And man, the child, awoke, a primal pair. p. 20. 
 
 It i8 evident from the account given in Genesis, that the 
 first man was dual, or two-in-one, and that the female of 
 the man was subsequently separated from the male, under 
 figure of a rib takeu from hie side, an arcanum not yet under 
 Btood by natural men, especially by unregnerate scientists. 
 
 8 He lost all human qualities, p. 2.5. 
 
 Men, as they exist now, are really unhuman, being more 
 allied to the animal character than to the original and nor- 
 mally human. The character really human combines, in 
 harmonious perfection, all the noble qualities ever exhib- 
 ited b}^ the purest and most exalted individuals of the race. 
 
 9 And man the apostate perished in the flood, ib. 
 
 By the flood, here, is understood the falsities, and also 
 the evil passions, that finally deluged and destroyed the 
 entire hum:in qualities of the race, save only the outward 
 form . 
 
 10 Noah and his sons. ib. 
 
 By Noah and his sous is to be understood a people who 
 had lost all spiritual perceptions by the closing of the spir- 
 itual degrae of the mind. There was no ccniscious life but 
 the sensual and corporeal. 
 
 11 And holy love forsook the brutish race. p. 26. 
 
 True conjugial love could not exist with a race of men so 
 debased and evil as it had now become, and was removed, 
 a mere animal passion taking its place. It can remain on- 
 ly with au nnfallen or a redeemed and pure people. 
 
 12 Thus groped the race in death's dark shadowed vale, ib 
 Without spiritual light, wholly sensual and corporeal. 
 
 13 Though dawning science, like the rising moon. ib. 
 The light of science is purely a natural light, without 
 
 spiritual heat, pale and feeble compared with spiritual 
 light. 
 
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 1-1 Settled and repted on the hximan earth, p. 26 
 
 The uuivereal human intellect, absolute spiritual dark- 
 ness throughout the human mind. 
 
 15 Nor moon nor star, p. 27 
 
 The knowledges of spiritual truth. These were inter- 
 cepted in their descent bj- thick clouds of falsities and evil 
 influences of the depraved spirits of deceased men, and 
 the heavely influences could not reach the minds of men. 
 
 n The star of Bethlehom— a spirit star. ib. 
 
 The account of this star must be taken as that of a purely 
 spiritual pliouomenon: it was seen by none but the wise 
 men, and in their own land, and it went before them as a 
 guide and rested above the place where "the young child 
 was.'" 
 
 18 The Child Divine, ib. 
 
 Divine in the sense that Jesus came into the world an 
 uufallen, normal human-divine child; a child born exempt 
 from all moral eftects of the fall; a child filled with the spirit 
 of God so that he was fully under his control in all he 
 did; not as being God alone in a physical form, but as God 
 or Christ most intimately present in the child Jesus, in 
 greater fullness and more absolute pervasion of the whole 
 being than He was in Adam ; thus Christ incarnate in man 
 the second and greater Adam; the first normal man since 
 the great apostacy and fall of the race, and a first fruit of 
 the restoration, and head of the redeemed race and new 
 humanity that will arise after the universal second coming 
 of Christ. This is why we regard Jesus as greater than all 
 other manifestations of Christ among men. 
 
 This second coming is not outwardly, nor in doctrine or 
 the revelation of the inner sense of the Bible only, nor in 
 the understanding only, but actually in the heart and will, 
 and thence in the whole life; Christ actually embodied in 
 man and manifested in and through and by him. 
 
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 21 His blood the holy truth divine to ehed, p. 28 
 
 There cau be no question that the meaning of thip pass- 
 age speaking of eating the body and drinking the blood of 
 the Son of Man is descriptive of the actual assimilation by 
 the human soul of the Diviue-hunian substance of Christ, 
 Divine good and truth. The idea we desire to present is 
 
 23 That substanced virtue, ib. 
 
 Does proceed from the Divine Humanity of the Lord into 
 the inmost souls of men; this being the real living sub- 
 stance of the Divine Humanity, pure spirit food, by the 
 assimilating of which the spirit of man lives, and that this 
 bread and wine constitute eternal life in man. 
 
 23 The Lamb prevails to ope' the seven seals, p. 32. 
 See Rev. v. 1-9. This is evidently a prophetic vision of 
 
 the opening of the spiritual sense of the Word by the Lord 
 as the only one able to open to men the sealed book of the 
 Scripture 
 
 24 The truth, the Man behold, ib 
 
 See John xix 5. Pilate asked Jesus. "What is truth?" 
 and without receiving an answer immediately went out. 
 After scourging him he brought him out tc show the Jews. 
 "Then came Jesus forth wearing the crown of thorns and 
 the purple robe and said, Behold the man." It will be seen 
 that the word, Pilate, is not in the original. The divine 
 truth is the Divine Man. 
 
 25 Transfigured now as on the mount of old. ib. 
 
 The Transfiguration was, without doubt, representative 
 of the transfiguration of the Word, the r^hiniugof its spirit 
 through its letter, the opening of the spiritual sense. 
 
 36 His face bright beaming as the sun. ib. 
 Is the real spirit Word. 
 
 27 His garments as the living light, ib. 
 
 The literal sense luminous from the spirit sense within. 
 
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 28 The Word hietoric and prophetic, p. 32 
 Represented by Moses aud Elijah. 
 
 29 Like Peter bow ib. 
 
 Peter represents faith seeing the glory of the spirit Word. 
 
 30 A tabernacle rear ib. 
 
 A system of doctrines derived from the Bible in which 
 one abides as in a house. 
 
 31 If from thyself thou shalt be wholly free. ib. 
 
 Self abnegation, or true humility, is necessary to a con- 
 tinuance in the spirit truth of the Word. 
 
 3-2 No more the cloud shall overshadow now. p.33 
 The transfiguration on the mount was a prophecy of the 
 opening of the spiritual sense of the Word, not the actual 
 opening, and could not remain, but the vision was closed 
 by a bright cloud, indicating that though the Word could 
 not be then opened in its spirit its letter should be illumi- 
 nated, and men enabled to receive spiritual instrction by it. 
 
 33 The soul destroy, ib. 
 
 The destruction of the soul is not by the act of God con- 
 demning it to hell, but is the effect of sin, which is the 
 transgression of the laws of spirit or eternal life. Sin only, 
 kills aud casts into hell, whether in this world or in the 
 next, and the destruction of the soul is the sequence of 
 immutable law. 
 
 34 For right in deed a soul of worship hides, ib. 
 
 All deeds of righteousness originate in the love of right 
 for its own sake, and involve a love of God, which in act 
 becomes worship; worship of God consists primarily in 
 doing His will. 
 
 35 The hymn of worship, p. 34 
 
 In the heavenly world everything animate or inanimate 
 worships the Lord by its harmonious action, its perfect 
 obedience to law and its ceaseless conspiration and con- 
 tribution to the good of all His creatures. 
 
54 
 
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 85 The heavenly world is from the iuward etatee, p. 35. 
 
 And appears objectively to those who are in conditions 
 of love and charity in forms of beanty, use etc., according to 
 their affection and thoughts, so that the outward and in- 
 ward conditions harmonize, giving perfect peace and joy 
 in the life. It is a truth, even in nature, though scarcely 
 perceptible by men owing to the fixity of material substan- 
 ces, that conditions in the outer world are moditied and fi- 
 nally molded through the conditions of its human inhabit- 
 ants. The law operates fully so in the spiritual world. 
 
 36 A greater form outbodied, ib. 
 
 So perfectly are the surroundings adapted to the condi- 
 of each . 
 
 31 A rare perfume by every dweller there, p. 36. 
 
 Perception is a spirit sense corresponding to the physi- 
 cal sense of smell, and the affections of the angels are 
 sensed as rare perfumes, according to the quality of the 
 affections. 
 
 38 But from the life of those in all the hells 
 This law conditions oppoite compels, p. 37. 
 
 By the same spirit law the condition of selfishness, 
 which constitutes hell in its essence, creates a condition 
 corresponding in every particular with the inward states 
 of the evil. 
 
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