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Steventon Vicarage

Berks

March 27. 1903.

Dear sir

Thank you very much for your reply to mine my doubt as to our getting light from invisible stars. I take it from the evidence of the photo-plates that the light of stars so distant as to be beyond telescopic view is c contributes to the stellar illumination we enjoy.

I am most interested in, & most charmed, by your reasoning [2] I think it accentuates the truth of the few grand lines we read in I. Genesis.

Our universe, & we, were the main objective of creative energy, our sun our ^earth our moon, and seondarily in the plenitude of omnipotency, dashed off as a lavish Environment or ornamentation — "He made the stars also."

As you say yr argument need not object to the imagination of other universes than ours, but I am inclined to think that such "a piece of work" as man is limited to the central planet depending [3] on the central sun of the one universe — there is so much in your article¹ which confirms me in this "selfish" theology — you do not limit space — you dont [sic] want to for your contentions. Infinite Space, if we can conceive the infinite, is the Divine Environment – The universe is rather in God than God in his universe. I take this from a Jewish source, at least I think so, and to my mind if we our conceptions of God shd be clarified & enlarged by scientific truths God is a spirit – God is spirit [4] if from this Definition we may use further similes why not say God is ether – God is electricity – that is to convey what xt intended – namely that God is Everything except matter ^{and evil}, God is light – God is love – space is infinite as Gods Sphere of Action – and as His Environment – and He has only two dwelling-places, one, space – the other man – You are right if you believe that it required a universe to bring about a second possible habitation for the infinite Personality [5]² of infinite Space —

I am v truly yours | A. Lempriere Foulkes³ [signature]