universe is in a sense a body in which He dwells. God is Spirit. He is infinitely more interior and higher than matter—infinitely more interior and higher than the spiritual nature of man or the spiritual world in which man's spirit dwells. We cannot correctly think of God in the terms of time and space at all.
Indeed, we cannot think of man's spirit as limited by time and space. With our affections and thoughts we can in an instant be on the moon, or at the sun, or at the farthest star. No limitations of time or space bind our affections or thoughts. And our affections and thoughts constitute the real man within our visible body. In this way it is that all men are invisible to one another, except as we can judge of their quality or affections through their expression of thought manifested in word or deed. We, indeed, live as to our sight and hearing and other senses in a material world, but yet we are not material. We are truly spiritual beings. The real man who thinks and feels is invisible in this material world, except as he is expressed outwardly through matter.
While God and man are in a sense both spirit, and hence invisible as to their true character on
