Occult Literature
From God to Ideas, Laws and Matter
A sun marked God stands above successive levels named Ideas, Principles, Laws and Essences. Curved lines separate paired positive and negative poles before the final row of ethers, vapours, fluids and solids. The diagram presents Davis’s proposed hierarchy of spiritual and material existence.
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Illustrator not identified. "From God to Ideas, Laws and Matter" [editorial title]. In A Stellar Key to the Summer Land, Part I, Andrew Jackson Davis. 1867 illustrated Part I; supplied historical scan, 1867, William White & Company; Banner of Light Branch Office. Source scan leaf 86. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0281-0079
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Reproduced from the exact historical library edition. The surrounding source presents spiritualist or cosmological claims; the image records that publication rather than verifying those claims.
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Illustrator not identified. From God to Ideas, Laws and Matter. A Stellar Key to the Summer Land, Part I. Scan leaf 86. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0281-0079