that if he as the Son of God were a different being than the Father, there would be two Gods, and that means polytheism, the impossible. The Infinite could not beget another Infinite, since neither then would be infinite; but by extension God could project His life directly down into nature and become present in His own things there.
Now, some minds find it disorderly for God so to have projected Himself into nature. Of course, it is not more impossible for God to do this if He had desired it, than to effect creation on any other plane or in any other way. The creation of the spiritual universe involved in it the creation of the natural universe. The creation of the mineral kingdom, the grossest form of matter, provided a basis from which the Divine influx into nature could work upward again to its source. But each separate step in the program of creation was a separate and distinct act of creation. The creation of the vegetable kingdom, with its innumerable species, was at every step a new act of creative activity, as was the creation of the animal kingdom. And man was as distinctive a creation as anything that preceded him, for, as we have seen, there
