I know, verily, that the universal, never ending,
eternal, bright and divine establishments are only the
diffusing of the breaths of God, and the spreading of
the instructions of God, and all that are beside these,
though they be the reigning over all the regions of the
earth, or the construction of railroads from the earth
to the heavens, or means of transportation with the
rapidity of rising lightning from the globe of earth
to the globe of the sun, all are but mortal, perishing,
demolishing and disadvantageous, in comparison with
the divine establishments. Because the latter (divine
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establishments) are intrinsic matters, while the former
are but metaphorical matters; the latter are truth, while
the former are imaginary.