THE SYMBOLISM OF THE UNIVERSE I have long held the view that the universe is built upon symbols, whereby one thing bespeaks another; the lesser testifying of the greater, lifting our thoughts from man to God, from earth to heaven, from time to eternity. This, I believe, was what the Lord was teaching Abraham when he said: "If two things exist, and there be one above the other, there shall be greater things above them" (Abr. 3:16). Already the Lord had said to Adam: "All things have their likeness, and are made to bear record of Me" (Moses 6:63). Man, created in the image of God, testifies or bears record of his Creator—not only by tongue or pen, but by his personality. Men and women, such as I see before me, are in the likeness of the Eternal Father and Mother, and by that likeness they bear record of their heavenly Parentage.