CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

PART I.

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Dedication .................................................................................	ix
Preface .....................................................................................	xiii
Chap. I. On the means which lead original: "conduce" to true philosophy, and on the true philosopher ................................................................	1
II. A philosophical argument concerning the First Simple In Swedenborg’s natural philosophy, the "First Simple" is the most basic, indivisible unit of matter produced directly from the Infinite. from which the world, with its natural things, originated; that is, concerning the First Natural Point, and its existence from the Infinite ....	46
III. A philosophical argument on the First or Simple Finite Finite: A substance or entity that has defined limits or boundaries, as opposed to the Infinite. and its origin from Points ........................................................	72
IV. A philosophical inquiry concerning the Second Finite, and the manner in which it derives its origin successively from the Simple Finite. Also, general observations on its coexistent; which we have named the Active Active: Swedenborg’s term for a particle that is in a state of constant, rapid motion, acting as a force within the system. of the First Finite; and on the manner in which it is geometrically derived from the First and Simple Finite .....................................................	96
V. Observations specifically on the Active of the First Finite: on its origin from the First Simple Finite; on its motion, shape original: "figure", state, and other attributes and modifications: showing original: "shewing" that this Active is one, and constitutes the sun of our system; that, in like manner, it forms the first elementary particles ....................	120
VI. On the first and most universal element of the World System original: "Mundane System"; here "mundane" is used in the older sense of the physical universe (from the Latin mundus), rather than meaning "boring" or "ordinary.", or the first elementary particle compounded of Finites and Actives; of its motion, shape, attributes, and modes; of its origin and composition from the Second Finite and the Active of the First Finite; of its constituting the solar and stellar vortices original: "vortices"; in early physics, a vortex was a whirlpool-like motion of fluid or particles that was believed to carry planets and stars in their orbits.. . . . . . . .	140
VII. On the Actives of the Second and Third Finite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	177
VIII. On the Third Finite or Substantial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	190