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 universe wherein the greater universe is represented in each particular by some power or faculty. The rock and the sand, the lamb and the lion, the dove and the vulture, the earth and the heavens are all in man. Man's person includes all that there is in the material creation, but on higher planes. In the Creator are man and creation in the still higher planes of the Divine Human. Now when we have assigned to the Creator in infinite degree all that there is in creation, we can not conceive of more. Whatsoever more than this He might be would be of no concern to us. We have no means of knowing it, or faculties to cognize it. It is sufficient that He is the Divine Human, and whatever He might be on still higher planes is immaterial, for man is satiated in the Divine Humanity.

Our conclusions, then, are the truths of revelation, for it declares that God created man in His own image and likeness, and that God is Divine Man. In subsequent chapters this will be considered more in detail when the requisite data are adduced; suffice it here to say that He could create in no other way than in His own image, which every orderly thing reflects in some degree. Representatively God put Himself fully into creation, "For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen,