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expression (or pressing out) of God. To man, therefore, is given dominion over all other manifestations.

God is not only the creative cause of every visible form of intelligence and life at its commencement, but each moment throughout its existence, He lives within every created thing as the life, the ever-renewing, re-creating, upbuilding cause of it. He never is and never can be for a moment separated from His creations. Then how can even a sparrow fall to the ground without His knowledge? And "you are of more value than many sparrows" (Mt. 10:31).

God is. Man exists (from ex, out of, and sistere, to stand forth). Man stands forth out of God. Man is a threefold being, made up of Spirit, soul, and body. Spirit, our innermost, real being, the absolute part of us, the I of us, has never changed, though our thoughts and our circumstances may have changed hundreds of times. This part of us is a standing forth of God into visibility. It is the Father in us. At this central part of his being, every person can say, "The Father and I are and speak absolute Truth.

Soul or mortal mind --- that which Paul calls "the mind on the flesh" (Rom. 8:6) --- is the region of the intellect, where we do conscious thinking Body is the last or external part of man's being in