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THE EARLIER OUTPOURINGS. 37
many are quite unable to recognise it as divine
at all.
Yet the living force is nevertheless there, even
when it is most strictly confined in the lowest of
its forms. The recent experiments of Professor
von Schron at Naples have conclusively proved
the existence of life in the mineral kingdom, and
show also in a most wonderful manner the action
of the first and second of these great successive
outpourings of the Divine Life.
Into this matter thus vivified, the second
great outpouring of the divine life descends.
Thus the Second Person of the Trinity takes
form not of the " virgin " or unproductive matter
alone, but of the matter which is already instinct
and pulsating with the life of the Third Person,
so that both the life and the matter surround
Him as a vesture, and thus in very truth He is
"incarnate of the Holy Ghost and the Virgin
Mary," which is the true rendering of a prominent
passage in our creed. (See The Christian Creed,
page 42.)
Very slowly and gradually this resistless flood
pours down through the various planes and
kingdoms, spending in each of them a period
equal in duration to one entire incarnation of a
planetary chain, a period which, if measured as
we measure time, would cover very many millions
of years. This flood is symbolized in Plate III.
many are quite unable to recognise it as divine
at all.
Yet the living force is nevertheless there, even
when it is most strictly confined in the lowest of
its forms. The recent experiments of Professor
von Schron at Naples have conclusively proved
the existence of life in the mineral kingdom, and
show also in a most wonderful manner the action
of the first and second of these great successive
outpourings of the Divine Life.
Into this matter thus vivified, the second
great outpouring of the divine life descends.
Thus the Second Person of the Trinity takes
form not of the " virgin " or unproductive matter
alone, but of the matter which is already instinct
and pulsating with the life of the Third Person,
so that both the life and the matter surround
Him as a vesture, and thus in very truth He is
"incarnate of the Holy Ghost and the Virgin
Mary," which is the true rendering of a prominent
passage in our creed. (See The Christian Creed,
page 42.)
Very slowly and gradually this resistless flood
pours down through the various planes and
kingdoms, spending in each of them a period
equal in duration to one entire incarnation of a
planetary chain, a period which, if measured as
we measure time, would cover very many millions
of years. This flood is symbolized in Plate III.