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is not a mere formless all-pervading ethereal essence, without body, parts, or passions; but He is an inﬁnitely glorious Divine Man—,—whose essential attributes are Love, Wisdom, and Life or Power. God is the one self-existent Personal Being,—the I AM,—above and independent of all space and time—Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent. God is Divincly Human, and the is the manifestation and embodiment of the substance of the invisible God, who, prior to His Incarnation, was called. God is the only self-subsisting Life and Substance—the First Creative Cause of all things. God creates all things from His own Life and Substance; but He so creates them that they form no part of His own Life and Substance. All orderly things ﬁrst exist subjectively in the mind of God; then, by their actual creation, though they are still