Divine Love and Wisdom (Harleys) n. 347

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347. (vii) Each of these forms, while it exists, receives the means of propagation. That in all the products of the earth which, as was said above, pertain either to the vegetable or animal kingdom, there is a certain likeness to creation, to man, and also to the Infinite and Eternal, was shown above (Nos. 313-318); also the likeness to the Infinite and Eternal shines out by reason of their capacity for propagation to infinity and eternity. Hence it is that all receive the means of propagation, the subjects of the animal kingdom by seed in the egg, or in the womb, or by spawning; and the subjects of the vegetable kingdom by seed in the earths. From which it can be established that although the more imperfect and noxious animals and vegetables originate by immediate influx out of hell, yet afterwards they are propagated mediately by seeds, eggs, or grafts; consequently, the one position does not annul the other.


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