The doctrine of the Divine spark (synteresis) is held by Law, but in a more definitely Christian form than by Eckhart.  “If Christ was to raise a new life like His own in every man, then every man must have had originally in the inmost spirit of his life a seed of Christ, or Christ as a seed of heaven, lying there in a state of insensibility, out of which it could not arise but by the mediatorial power of Christ....  For what could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?...  The Word of God is the hidden treasure of every human soul, immured under flesh and blood, till as a day-star it arises in our hearts, and changes the son of an earthly Adam into a son of God.”  Is not this the Platonic doctrine of anamnesis, Christianised in a most beautiful manner?

Very characteristic of the later Mysticism is the language which both Boehme and Law use about the future state.  “The soul, when it departs from the body,” Boehme writes, “needeth not to go far; for where the body dies, there is heaven and hell.  God is there, and the devil; yea, each in his own kingdom.  There also is Paradise; and the soul needeth only to enter through the deep door in the centre.”  Law is very emphatic in asserting that heaven and hell are states, not places, and that they are “no foreign, separate, and imposed states, adjudged to us by the will of God.”  “Damnation,” he says, “is the natural, essential state of our own disordered nature, which is impossible, in the nature of the thing, to be anything else but our own hell, both here and hereafter.”  “There is nothing that is supernatural,” he says very finely, “in the whole system of our redemption.  Every part of it has its ground in the workings and powers of nature, and all our redemption is only nature set right, or made to be that which it ought to be.[354] There is nothing that is supernatural but God alone....  Right and wrong, good and evil, true and false, happiness and misery, are as unchangeable in nature as time and space.  Nothing, therefore, can be done to any creature supernaturally, or in a way that is without or contrary to the powers of nature; but every thing or creature that is to be helped, that is, to have any good done to it, or any evil taken out of it, can only have it done so far as the powers of nature are able, and rightly directed to effect it.[355]”

It is difficult to abstain from quoting more passages like this, in which Faith, which had been so long directed only to the unseen and unknown, sheds her bright beams over this earth of ours, and claims all nature for her own.  The laws of nature are now recognised as the laws of God, and for that very reason they cannot be broken or arbitrarily suspended.  Redemption is a law of life.  There will come a time[356], “the time of the lilies,” as Boehme calls it, when all nature will be delivered from bondage.  “All the design of Christian redemption,” says Law, “is to remove everything