res of those inconceivably numerous things which
you designate as his creatures, but which are really but infinite
individualizations of Himself. All these creatures--_all_--those which you
term animate, as well as those to whom you deny life for no better
reason than that you do not behold it in operation--_all_ these
creatures have, in a greater or less degree, a capacity for pleasure
and for pain:--_but the general sum of their sensations is precisely
that amount of Happiness which appertains by right to the Divine Being
when concentrated within Himself_. These creatures are all, too, more or
less conscious Intelligences; conscious, first, of a proper identity;
conscious, secondly and by faint indeterminate glimpses, of an identity
with the Divine Being of whom we speak--of an identity with God. Of the
two classes of consciousness, fancy that the former will grow weaker,
the latter stronger, during the long succession of ages which must
elapse before these myriads of individual Intelligences become
blended--when the bright stars become blended--into One. Think that the
sense of individual identity will be gradually merged in the general
consciousness--that Man, for example, ceasing imperceptibly to feel
himself Man, will at length attain that awfully triumphant epoch when he
shall recognize his existence as that of Jehovah. In the meantime bear
in mind that all is Life--Life--Life within Life--the less within the
greater, and all within the _Spirit Divine_."

[16] See pages 102-103--Paragraph commencing "I reply that the
right," and ending "proper and particular God."

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