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Credo.

IT is fair to ask of everyone a reason for the faith within. Though it be but to repeat my twice-told tale, — nay, the tale already told a hundred times, — yet ask, and I will answer.

Do you believe in God?

I believe more in Him than do most Christians, for I have no faith in any other thing or being. He sustains my individuality. Nay, more — He is my individuality and my life. Because He lives, I live. He heals all my ills, destroys my iniquities, deprives death of its sting, and robs the grave of its victory.

To me God is All. He is best understood as Supreme Being, as infinite and conscious Life, as the affectionate Father and Mother of all He creates; but this Divine Parent no more enters into His creation, than the human father enters into his child. His creation is not the Ego, but the reflection of the Ego. The Ego is God himself, the infinite Soul.

I believe that of which I am conscious through the