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AS is the outer so is the inner: He that worketh is One.
2. As the small is, so is the great:
there is one law.
3. Nothing is small and nothing is
great in the Divine Economy.
4. If thou wouldst understand the
method of the world’s
corruption, and the condition to which sin hath
reduced the work of God,
5. Meditate upon the aspect of a
corpse; and consider the method of the putrefaction of its tissues and humours.
6. For the secret of death is the
same, whether of the outer or of the inner.
7. The body dieth
when the central will of its system no longer bindeth
in obedience the elements of its substance.
8. Every cell is a living entity,
whether of vegetable or of animal potency.
10. Health, therefore, is order,
obedience, and government.
11. But wherever disease is, there is
disunion, rebellion, and insubordination.
12. And the deeper the seat of the
confusion the more dangerous the malady, and the harder to quell it.
13. That which is superficial may be
more easily healed; or, if need be, the disorderly elements may be rooted out,
and the body shall be whole and at unity again.
14. But if the disobedient molecules
corrupt each other continually, and the perversity spread, and the rebellious
tracts multiply their elements; the whole body shall fall into dissolution,
which is death.
15. For the
central will, that should dominate all the kingdom of the body, is no longer
obeyed; and every element is become its own ruler, and hath a divergent will of
its own.
16. So that the poles of the cells
incline in divers directions; and the binding power, which is the life of the
body, is dissolved and destroyed.
17. And when dissolution is complete,
then follow corruption and putrefaction.
18. Now, that which is true of the physical, is true likewise of its prototype.
19. The whole world is full of
revolt; and every element hath a will divergent from God.
20. Whereas there ought to be but one
will, attracting and ruling the whole man.
21. But there is no longer
brotherhood among you; nor order, nor mutual sustenance.
22. Every cell is its own arbiter;
and every member is become a sect.
23. Ye are not bound one to another:
ye have confounded your offices and abandoned your functions.
24. Ye have reversed the direction of
your magnetic currents; ye are fallen into confusion, and have given place to
the spirit of misrule.
25. Your wills are many and diverse;
and every one of you is an anarchy.
27. O wretched man; who shall deliver
you from this body of death?
(135:2)
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