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In the midst of it again was a fruit tree, which bore a small egg, the most precious of all,
in which, as in a jewel, nature concealed herself with her highest powers and stores, about
to become the initiaments of the most consummate body; therefore this fruit-tree was called
the TREE OF LIFE. But this little egg was not yet fecundated, though nature had collected into
it, as into a sort of sacred little ark, her most excellent treasures and valuables. . . .
Into this egg, as into a center, then the Supreme Mind came to meet her, and from itself,
as the Sun of Life itself, with concentrated rays, conceived the super-celestial form or soul,
which was life and capable of containing what is infinite, or the Infinite itself.
(All vegetative life and spiritual powers conspired to allow this tender egg to grow. At length,
all things now prepared) the parturient branch, according to the times of gestation inclining
itself by degrees towards the ground, deposited its burden