 As noted above, Hartley believed that all people will ultimately become “partakers of the divine nature.” Such is the “everlasting gospel” of universal salvation. Moreover, Hartley sought to show that the gathering together of all humanity into the “mystical body of Christ” is a process inherent in our nature: the psychological dynamic of association, which generates our ideas and perfects our secondarily automatic movements, also “has a tendency to reduce the state of those who have eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, back again to a paradisiacal one” (OM 1, prop. 14). The question is, how does association accomplish this?