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152 The human form, or physical finiteness, cannot be made the basis of any true idea of the infinite Godhead. Eye hath not seen Spirit, nor ear heard His voice.

Progress takes off human shackles. The finite must yield to the Infinite. Advancing to a higher plane of

action, thought rises from the material sense to the spiritual, from the mortal to the immortal, and from the material to the immaterial. All things are created spiritually. Mind, not matter, is the Creator. Love, the divine Principle, is the Father and Mother of the universe, including man.

The theory of three persons in one God (that is, a personal Trinity or Tri-unity) suggests heathen

gods, rather than the one ever-present. “Hear, Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.”

The everlasting is not bounded or compressed within the narrow limits of physical humanity, nor can

He be understood aright through mortal concepts. The precise form of God must be of small importance, when compared with the sublime question, What is infinite Mind, or divine Love?

Who is it that demands our obedience? He who, in the language of Scripture, “doeth according to His will, in the army of Heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest Thou?” No form, or physical combination, is adequate to represent infinite Love and Wisdom. A finite and material sense of God leads to formalism and narrowness, and freezes the heart of Christianity.

A limitless Mind cannot proceed from physical limitations. Finiteness cannot present the idea or form of