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The words "God" and "Creator" have been distorted in man's effort to conform the Infinite to his own conceptions. The new meaning suggests Source --- not a Creator making things of nothing, but of Its own Life and Substance, bringing forth from Eternal, Invisible Being all the forms of Life. "For of him and through him and to him are all things." (Rom. 11: 36.) "For the invisible things of him are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made." (Rom. 1: 20.)

God is the Source and Origin of all things, as a fount is the source of its stream. "I am the beginning and the end" saith Spirit. The Universal Spirit, the only Life and Substance, is the "beginning," the Source. That which emanates from this Infinite Life and Substance is the "end"; it is Spirit, too, for there is but One Presence, One Life and One Substance. Creation is also Spirit. Everything begins and ends as Spirit.

When we speak of God as Principle, we refer to the Infinite as the First and Only Cause. Principle is thus defined by Webster: "The source and origin; that from which anything proceeds; the beginning, the first." It is the First Cause, the beginning of all things wherein we find the true Nature of all things. The fount determines the nature of the stream. So God is our beginning and our nature is decided by his.

We know that Principle may be demonstrated or worked out, as in mathematics or music.