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form of the universe and gave it forth, as Spirit and not matter, and nothing was left for man or for matter to create, after Spirit had created all. This is science, and it underlies the harmony of God and man. The Scriptures declare “God is Love;” that “God is Spirit, Life, and Truth;” now these are not person; also there are many persons, and but one God; hence Deity is not person but Principle. Judging from Paul's rule, to learn the “invisible by the things He hath made,” the ideas that express God, render it impossible for that to be one person which produces feminine, masculine, and neuter. The expression of God's gender is Principle and not person; the entire universe and man represent God as Principle, and not person; the infinite “Us” that embraced every idea of the universe, shadowing forth each from out itself; the unavoidable result of Intelligence that said, “Let there be light,” that is, let the Infinite be expressed.

“In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God; all things were made by Him, and without Him there was nothing made that was made.” “In Him was Life,” etc., and then to conclude in the face of this infinite logic, that an egg is the starting point of Life, that seed produces germination, etc., is to forget this is mythical, and a belief that usurped the prerogative of understanding, starting an Adam from dust, calling itself Life in matter, and resulting in mortality, the very opposite of Truth.

After “all was made that was made,” nothing could be added to the infinite expression of infinite Intelligence, and person is not the image and likeness of Intelligence, or matter of Spirit; therefore, these do