...itself may be again dissolved ; we may then conclude its now solid materials were once a vaporous mass. Had there been no law in nature by which matter could...would have remained in the materialized condition. Laws are the most descended modification of the Divine Mind ; while essences are the most ascended...

...invisible to those who eat. Were there no such changes and modifications of material substances, all nature would remain at a perfect stand-still, progress would...there been no law in nature by which matter could be ethcrealized, then all would have remained in the materialized condition; and we should not have been...