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 Yet it is obvious that God might proceed downward into the realms of lower created things by the projection of Himself. But in order to do this it would be inherently necessary for Him to provide a way for doing it, and the way He provided we may believe was by this assumption of the human soul-form and being born as to this outward form a man on the plane of matter. This would be but a step or a means by which He was later on coming directly and fully into all realms of creation. So that the soul-form provided, the life manifesting itself as an ordinary man would be only a process of extension of Himself, and an orderly one.

It is necessary to pause here for a moment to reply to difiiculties that naturally arise in the human mind.

For example, we are asked, Was not God always present on the different planes of creation? Yes, for God is omnipresent. But we can comprehend that before the Incarnation He was present mediately, not immediately. Thus, in the creation of the universe, both spiritual and material, we can perceive God creating all things through atmospheres thrown off from Him. He obviously created a spiritual