"While we indulge to the _Sensitive_ or _Plantal_ Life, our delights are common to us with the creatures _below_ us: and 'tis likely, they exceed us as much in them, as in the senses their subjects; and that's a poor happiness for Man to aim at, in which Beasts are his Superiours. But those Mercurial spirits which were only lent the Earth to shew Men their folly in admiring it; possess delights of a nobler make and nature, which as it were antedate _Immortality_; and, at an humble distance, resemble the joyes of the world of _Light_ and _Glory_. The _Sun_ and _Stars_, are not the world's _Eyes_, but _These_: the _Celestial Argus_ cannot glory in such an universal view. These out-travel theirs, and their _Monarch's_ beams: passing into _Vortexes_ beyond their Light and Influence; and with an easie twinkle of an Intellectual Eye look into the _Centre_, which is obscur'd from the upper Luminaries. This is somewhat like the Image of _Omnipresence_. And what the _Hermetical Philosophy_ saith of _God_, is in a sense verifiable of the thus _ennobled soul_, That _its Centre is every where, but its circumference no where_.... ".... And yet there's an higher degree, to which _Philosophy_ sublimes us. For, as it teacheth a generous contempt of what the grovelling desires of _creeping_ Mortals Idolize and dote on: so it raiseth us to love and admire an Object, that is as much above terrestrial, as _Infinite_ can make it. If _Plutarch_ may have credit, the observation of Nature's Harmony in the _Celestial Motions_ was one of the first inducements to the belief of _a God_. And a greater then he affirms, that the visible things of the Creation declare him, that made them. What knowledge we have of them, we have in a sense of their Authour. His face cannot be beheld by Creature-Opticks, without the allay of a reflexion; and Nature is one of those mirrors, that represents him to us. And now, the more we know of him the more we love him, the more we are like him, the more we admire him. 'Tis here that _knowledge wonders_; and there's an _Admiration_, that's not the _Daughter_ of _Ignorance_. This indeed stupidly gazeth at the unwonted _effect_. But the Philosophical passion truly admires and adores the supreme _Efficient_ ....