ALL THINGS IN THE WORLD, MOREOVER, TEND TOWARDS A LIKE FORM

By "all things in the world" are meant living things, those that walk or crawl on land as well as those that fly in the air and swim in the water; also vegetation is meant, trees as well as shrubs, flowers, plants and grasses. But atmospheres, waters and the material substances of the earth are only means for the generation and bringing forth of the living things.

That the Divine Love which is Life Itself and which is the Lord, is in the form of the forms of all uses, which form is Man, can be nowhere better seen than in the creation of the universe and then of the earth and of all things in them both. For, by creation there is nothing on the earth that is not made for use. The whole mineral kingdom is full of uses; there is not a particle of dust in it, nor any piece of soil formed of such particles, that is not of use. The whole vegetable kingdom is full of uses; there is not a tree, plant, flower, or grass, that is not of use; indeed, there is nothing in the tree, plant, flower or grass, that is not of use; each single thing is the form of its own use. The whole animal kingdom, also, is full of uses; there is not an animal, from the little worm to the lion, that is not of use, and that is not also the form of its use. It is the same with whatever is above the earth, right up to the sun. In a word, every point in the created universe and in created beings is a use; in fact, it is in a successively expanding series of uses from the use in first things to the use in ultimates, thus from one use to another in unbroken succession-clear proof that the Creator and Former, who is the Lord, is the infinite enfolding of all uses, in His essence Love, and in His form Man in whom that enfolding is.

Who that is willing to consider these things with merely ordinary intelligence, can be of such defective reason as to think they are the work of a dead sun, and therefore of dead Nature?