"As man is the uniter in all arrangements which stand _below_
him, and in which the objects could not unite themselves, so man
needs a uniter _above_ him, to whom he submits, in the certain
incapability of self-union. This uniter, unity, or One, is the
premonitor whence exists the premonition Unity, which so recurrently
becomes conscious in man. By a neglect of interior submission, man
fails of this antecedent, Unity; and as a consequence his attempts at
union by exterior mastery have no success." Certain conditions are
necessary to this, namely, the external arrangements indispensable
_for_ the evolution of the Uniting Spirit can alone be provided _by_
the Uniting Spirit.
"We seem to be in an endless circle, of which both halves have
lost their centre connexion; for it is an operation no less difficult
than the junction of two such discs that is requisite to unity.
These segments also being in motion, each upon a false centre of its
own, the obstacles to union are incalculably multiplied.
"The spiritual or theoretic world in man revolves upon one set
of principles, and the practical or actual world upon another.
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