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154 It would require an infinite form to contain infinite Mind. Indeed, the phrase infinite form involves a

contradiction of terms. Finite man cannot be the image and likeness of the infinite God. A mortal, corporeal, or finite conception of God cannot embrace the glories of limitless, incorporeal Life and Love. Hence the unsatisfied human craving for something better, higher, holier, than is afforded by this material belief in a physical God and man. The insufficiency of this belief to supply the true idea proves its falsity.

Man is more than a material form with a mind inside,

which must escape from its environments in order to survive death. He reflects Infinity, and includes in this reflection the universal idea of God.

When God expressed in man the infinite idea, forever developing itself, broadening, and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis. He created everything that is to be found in the kingdom of Mind. We know no more of man's individuality, as the true divine image and likeness, than we know of God's.

The infinite Principle is reflected by the infinite idea and spiritual individuality, but the material senses have no cognizance of either. The human capacities are enlarged and perfected, in proportion as humanity gains the true conception of man and God.

Mortals have a very feeble and imperfect idea of the spiritual man, and the infinite range of his thought.

To him belongs eternal Life. Never born and never dying, it is an impossibility for Being, under the government of eternal Science, to fall from its high estate.