ANALOGY DEMANDED BY THE UNITY OF GOD.

Now, what is this analogy? It is a relation between the worse and the

worse, the better and the better, one eye and the other, one foot and

the other, virtue and justice, vice and injustice. The analogy which

reigns in the universe is then that which makes divination possible.

The influence which one being exercises on another conforms to the

laws of influence which the members of the universal Organism must

exercise upon each other. The one does not produce the other; for all

are generated together; but each is affected according to its nature,

each in its own manner. This constitutes the unity of the Reason of the

universe.

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