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256 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 scholastic to the inspirational, and from the mortal to the immortal. 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 polytheism, rather than the one ever-present . “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord.”

The everlasting is not bounded nor 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 in comparison 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 nor physical combination is adequate to represent infinite Love. A finite and material sense of God leads to formalism and narrowness; it chills the spirit of Christianity.

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

of infinity. A mind originating from a finite or material source must be limited and finite. Infinite Mind is the creator, and creation is the