creator and therefore to talk of the creator a in this point of view between himself and the creature an essential or absolute would bo to use words without understanding t is essential or absolute cannot be effected or all actual for the simple reason that it is itself the basis of all effects or the divine end in creation then no such as this but wholly a formal or a to the creature s consciousness but how shall take place while the creature is without a consciousness or for absolutely of the creature is a or is not � god being the only absolute how then shall the in question take place the first condition is that the creature possess if not an absolute yet a or apparent a self consciousness which shall the requisite basis of but here again a difficulty occurs for how shall this or apparent become pronounce become possible how shall this self consciousness become developed for god is essentially and his creature therefore cannot be a mere ion he must bo a real and actual if all bo then it results of absolute necessity that this of the creature become pronounced only by the descent of the divine to natural conditions by his in the principles of natural order it results iu other words that the absolute or reveal himself in the and that the creator manifest in the creature creation then considered � as a divine achievement or finished work � is the of the in the laws of natural order but creation considered considered as the ac a a revelation of the creator in the creature or in s language as the divine involve of a plane of a plane to that of absolute life and absolute death or absolute good and absolute evil for absolute life or good of course cannot be imparted and absolute death or evil is equally of course an experience since its experience bo to a of tiie subject s hence we repeat that creation regarded as a process as the procession of the subject towards the created subject as the from absolute to existence a experience an experience which shall be that neither of absolute life nor of death but the indifference or of the two and the subject of this experience is exclusively the man the man who is both good and evil or in s both and ii the reason why the fulfilment of the divine end in creation which is the of the creator with the creature the moral man or tiie moral experience is for inasmuch as the creator in af is absolute and hence life and the creature in is the absolute of life so there can be no actual of the two save in some middle life shall bo common to both accordingly the or spiritual sphere of creation altogether under this mixed aspect or as wholly made up of this moral no trace of absolute life appeared in it but the deity varied according to the endless varieties of the individual and this reflected every phase between an almost total in deity and an almost total denial of him or between the experience of him as a and overpowering splendor and a destructive and the true divine man in whom the deity dwelt as in himself or what is the same thing with whom he was sensibly was nowhere visible for to the senses of the morally good or man the deity shone as a beneficent sun at an infinite remove above his head and to the senses of the evil or infernal man he appeared as that sun at an infinite remove below his feet in the one subject the creator was seen the creature in the other the creature was seen the creator vo m a� a june in neither subject were the two presented in perfect accord or combination for in neither do we see the creator dwelling as in himself nor the creature forth all divine as of the heavenly man m proportion to his relative superiority acknowledged only the the infernal man m proportion to his relative inferiority acknowledged only the created now to our apprehension what renders of infinite and moment to the or is the with which he the and perfect of this si ere of creation to the grand ultimate or sphere which was to reveal the true divine humanity or the man with whom the deity should be sensibly this man is exclusively the artist or the man who in s phrase loves use or art for its own sake and not for its to his or social necessities art is the only positive or divine good on earth its may exhibit every variety of comparative excellence but there is none of them however humble be its sphere which is positively evil � which is not when in itself positively good and does not therefore the of god and man when accordingly the true divine man appears perfectly self love and universal love in the supreme love of art or use then the of heaven and hell or moral good and evil will be seen to import only the difference of internal and external or soul and body and both alike will the divine goodness we have now ven according to our apprehension of it a faithful statement of the doctrine of the or the humanity a doctrine which gives to s pages all their interest the essential divine humanity consists in cr love the divine natural humanity consists in every varied form of art or productive use and is upon a perfect society this latter theme is the mystic burden of all sacred scripture since the world began and we are now according to this gifted on the very verge of its accomplishment the great according to which this doctrine meets among christians lies in their or material they cultivate no faculty of thought hence they conceive of the 