XXII. Swedenhorg. " It is to be held that all

things in the universe were created in their orders, so that they may subsist each one by itself, and that from the beginning they were so created, that they may con- join themselves with the universal order, to the intent that each particular order may subsist in the universal, and thus make one." T. G. B. page 47.
Spinoza. " * * * and if we thus go on ad in- finitum^ we may easily conceive that all nature is one
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Individual, whose parts (that is to say, all bodies) vary in infinite modes, without any change in the total In- dividual : " [i. e. all bodies make one.] Ethics, part 2, lemma 7 after prop. 13.
The doctrine at page 57 of the True Christian Eeligion, of God being " order itself," and that the " laws of order are myriads," and that '' God cannot act contrary to them," is precisely Spino- za's doctrine, as may be seen in many places. The doctrine is argued at length in the Ethics^