can comprehend all that It is, and that no one statement of Truth can convey the knowledge and beauty of the Divine Presence. The mind that is the most efficient vehicle in bringing one to the apprehension of Deity must be supremely elastic and supple in its dealings with the many contradictory statements made concerning “Him that is without a second.”

Paradoxical statements.

The mind swings between such extreme utterances as “God is All” and “God is the Nothing,” and finds the unity of the extremes, and rests in conscious poise and ecstasy of realization. It sees that there is only God, and the Nothing is the receptivity of the divine nature, the Motherhood of God, and the All is the Fatherhood of God. The All is ever filling the Nothing, and this fullfilling is manifestation and creation. Nature is the holy Mother, pure nothingness, the void, without whom there could be no bringing forth. She is God, the immaculate Virgin that all womanhood typifies. Her emptiness ever draws the divine substance into manifestation. She is never known as the Nothing, but by the name of her Lord. All creation reveals her mystery; the sap rushes up the trees because her vacuum precedes it, the breath flows into the lungs because of the emptiness, there is no movement of currents of air or water, of rock or fire, but most have a vacancy to cause its motion.

Of this sweet Mother of us all the mystic sings:

There was something chaotic in nature which existed before heaven and earth. It was still. It was void. It stood alone, and was not changed. It pervaded everywhere, and