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 He said, " Except ye eat My flesh and drink My blood, ye have no life in you."

Goodness and truth being infinite in Him, these names of His attributes are the only names that have a meaning suitable to the substance itself of the Creator. "His flesh is meat indeed," and "His blood is drink indeed," because all goodness and truth that nourish the mind and soul are from Him alone in whom they are absolute.

It ought to be seen intuitively that the qualities of good and truth could not exist if there were not absolute good and truth from which such qualities are derived. For we know that no natural quality can exist without matter, of which it is a quality. It is equally evident that no spiritual quality can exist without a substance in which it inheres.

Having the starting point that the Creator is goodness and truth itself,