one of Its activities and is of like nature to It, the same in essence but not the same in degree.

At the level of our comprehension of ourselves we know God. This self-knowingness, which is also God-knowing, has the possibilities of eternal expansion. As individual intelligences, you and I communicate with each other, can respond to each other; and in so doing we establish the fact that intelligence responds to intelligence. This same law must hold good whether we think of finite intelligence responding to finite intelligence or whether we think of Infinite Intelligence responding to finite intelligence, for intelligence is the same in essence wherever we find it. We may rest assured that Infinite Intelligence responds to us by the very necessity of being true to Its own nature.

But how does It respond? It can respond only by corresponding, which is but another way of saying that the Infinite Intelligence responds to us by the direct impartation of Itself through us. This is the meaning of that mystical saying, "The Highest God and the Innermost God is One God," and the saying of Jesus, "I and the Father are One." Whatever intelligence we possess is some degree, some measure of that Infinite Intelligence which we call God.

The Infinite Mind imparts of Itself to the finite through the act of incarnation. The evolution of the human race is a process whereby Intelligence passes by