that love builds for itself that it may bring into outward effect the endeavor that is in love. The human body is therefore the outbirth of the interior human form, and as such it is the material image of the functions and faculties that constitute man; it is the visible symbol of the systematic and correlated potencies that are in love itself.
If love had not in itself an ordinated series of potencies, it could not produce a corresponding material organism; for the material organism is nothing other than a system of organs formed by the potencies of love in which they may dwell and act. The material organism is a form made by love for love to realize itself. Since love is the forming and creating substance in man, the corresponding substance of the Creator is properly called Divine Love, and as God in His very essence is Love, His whole substance is Love. By His form is not meant shape, but the correlative, coordinating, infinite potencies that are in the substance of His Love, which constitute the Divine Human. The substance of the Creator is Love in the same sense that the substance of the earth is rock, or that the substance of the material body is flesh. Love and wisdom are the flesh and blood of the Divine Being, from which man must receive to have life. "Except ye eat My flesh and drink
