all
things. There is no such thing as dead
matter. Moreover, life is one, and it
cannot be changed except into itself.
All forms are forms of this unity and
must come and go through some inner activity.
This inner activity of life or nature
must be some some form of self-consciousness
or self- knowing. In our human understanding
we would call this inner knowing, or consciouness
"thought." The Spirit or Life,
or God, must make things out of Himself,
through self-recognition, or self-knowing
or, as we would call it thinking.
Since God is all, there is nothing
to hinder Him from doung what He wishes,
and the question, "How do things
come into being?" is answered: God
makes them out of Himself. God thinks,
or knows, and that thing which He thinks
or knows appears from Himself, and is
made out of Himself. There is no other
possible explanation for what we see.
Unless people are willing to begin here,
they will never understand how it is that
things are not material but spiritual.
MAN'S
PLACE IN CREATION.
BUT
where does man come in? He is. Therefore
it follows that he. too, is made out of
God, since God, or Spirit, is all. Being
made out of God, he must partake of His
nature, for we are "made in His image."
Man
is the center of God in God. Whatever
God is in the Universal, man must be in
the individual world. The difference between
God and man is one of degree and not of
quality. Man is not self-made; he is made
out of God.
The
question might arise, why did God do this?
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