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 the series in Him constitutes the Divine Human. Thinking above space, that is, not having it in mind, we can think of His substance as Love, the potencies of which give rise to the forces of creation; and we can think of His form as that succession and arrangement of essentials that constitute a humanity. Since the mind can not think definitely except from images, His shape is properly conceived of as that of the highest outbirth and embodiment of His Love; namely, the human shape. The human shape is the material image of the human form; the human form is an image of the Divine Human; so it is evident that the Divine Human could not be revealed or thought of under any other form than that of the human, which corresponds to it. "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father," said Jesus. No injustice will be done in thinking of the Creator as of the human shape, provided there is put within that idea the essence of the Divine Human, which is infinite love. Indeed, without such a definite image in mind, no adequate idea of God can be formed. Should it be admitted that the Creator is all this, yet so much more that to think of Him as Infinite Person is a limitation upon Him, it should be remembered that as creation is finitely represented in man, so creation is in the Creator in its infinitude. For man in himself is a little