these laws all the natural conceptions which have been substituted for them, we will proceed to apply this threefold law in the explanation of phenomena, so that we may have both external and internal demonstration of its truth, and may show how it is to be applied in the multiplication of knowledge in all departments of thought. We shall first apply it in obtaining a statement, and demonstration by the most copious illustration, of the Laws of Representation or Correspondence according to which all things are constructed; next, in obtaining a statement, and demonstration by similar illustrations, of the Laws of Succession or Growth according to which all things become manifested; next, in realizing a complete System of Theology that shall describe the Nature of God, of Man, and of Christ the Mediator, from a spiritual point of view; and, finally, we shall apply this law in realizing a complete System of Psychology that shall include all the primitive forms of the Human Constitution. In this way we shall realize Philosophy in its only legitimate form, which is that of Absolute Science, in which Ontology, Theology, and Psychology are made completely one as Spirit, Soul, and Body.

THE

LAWS OF CORRESPONDENCE

OR OF

REPRESENTATION.

FOR THE INVISIBLE THINGS OF HIM FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD ARE CLEARLY SEEN, BEING UNDERSTOOD BY THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE; EVEN HIS ETERNAL POWER AND GODHEAD. - Rom. i. 20.

GOOD IS SET AGAINST EVIL, ANE LIFE AGAINST DEATH: SO IS THE GODLY AGAINST THE SINNER, AND THE SINNER AGAINST THE GODLY. SO LOOK UPON ALL THE WORKS OF THE MOST HIGH; AND THERE ARE TWO AND TWO, ONE AGAINST THE OTHER." Ecclus. xxxiii. 14, 15.

THE

LAWS OF CORRESPONDENCE.

HAVING established by a strictly logical process the fact of TriPersonality in God, by reasoning from the conception of Infinite Life as a point of departure, — having described the process by which Absolute Existence becomes realized as Creating Cause, and Infinite Life becomes the Living God, having shown that the laws of Matter, and the susceptibility in them for realizing by combination a definite sphere of Phenomenal Being, are by this incarnation of the Infinite Life realized as an objective experience in the consciousness of God, and that this phenomenal sphere constitutes a medium through which Absolute Causes can be represented in a natural and manifested in a spiritual manner, in the most external and diversified forms, and having constructed from these statements three formulas, as the Law of Tri-Personality, which we are to take as an external point of departure, and to apply in the construction of Philosophy as Absolute Science, we will proceed to apply this law in the explanation of the Creation which necessarily resulted from this realization of God as Absolute Creating Cause, thus demonstrating the universality of this law. This is a strictly legitimate mode of proceeding, upon the ground that the phenomenal and absolute spheres of Indefinite Being are analogous, and that all phenomenal things must be constituted as representatives of facts which have been realized in an Absolute Sphere of Being; and this is shown to be a legitimate ground, because we not only demonstrate, but are taught in the Scriptures, that Man, who is the head of this Creation, is made" in the Image of God," and that "the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, - even his Eternal Power and Godhead."

We see, therefore, that our subject now assumes an entirely different aspect, and demands an entirely different treatment; that, instead of continuing the application of a logical process, an analogical process must now be instituted, in order that we should be made to understand the nature of this creation, and particularly that we should understand the relationship that exists between the creature and the Creator. It is now demanded, that we apply the Law of Tri-Personality just realized; first, in obtaining a statement and illustration of the Universal Laws of Correspondence, according to which all things are created; and, next, in obtaining a statement and illustration of the Laws of Succession, or of Growth, according to which all natural changes are effected; because these laws must necessarily be contained in and suggested by this tri-personal law, and it is only by a statement of them, and also an illustration of them by reference to the phenomena of creation, that the nature of this law or the character of these phenomena can possibly be understood. The institution of the mode of demonstration by Analogy will probably be objected to by the logicians, who perhaps think that correspondences and analogies belong rather to poetry than to philosophy; although the use of these in the Scriptures and in the Church, as the medium for representing the highest truths, ought to make them suspicious of such an opinion but they have yet to learn, that the Imagination, and not the logical faculty, is the true organ of Philosophy and incarnator of Truth; and that in the Reason, which is the highest power of the mind, originate Laws of Correspondence which are the life of Philosophy. The failure to obtain a conception of these laws as the foundation for Analogy, which represents the relationships between internal and external, and between spiritual and natural things, and the consequent neglect of analogy as a philosophical method or form, has prevented any advance in the philosophy either of the human mind or of the Universe, has made the realization of philosophy in a scientific form impossible, — and has confined it almost exclusively to the sphere of psychology, which is a region of empiricism. This is a region of empiricism, because no conception of the opposite spiritual causes which all things are created to represent, or of the natural laws which constitute the life of human nature, can here be obtained; and because it is a region in which nothing but discordant and deceptive appearances can be known, in reasoning from which nothing but confusion and contradiction can result. Even the philosophers of the modern speculative school founded by Kant, who undertook