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 Let us for a moment think of God's essential being.

What is God? The very form of the word indicates that the minds of the Anglo-Saxons and related races perceived that God is essential Good, the Supreme Good. It is a high ideal of God, but a proper one. God alone in the supreme sense is Good.

Accepting this idea of God, we find back of the word Good the essential quality of Love, a higher concept of God, for Love is the source of Good. We are entitled to think of God as Love, Love being His essential quality. But a quality cannot be manifested except in form; and thus we next think of God as Wisdom, which means merely the form of Love on the same plane. When we think of God as Good, actually a lower perception of Him, we think of God's expression or form as Truth.

We thus perceive that God has two phases at least of being, Love and Wisdom, Good and Truth, or, in general, Being and Coming-Forth, or Quality and Form. Jehovah, or the Father, seems to be Essential Being, and Jesus, or the Son, God-Coming-Forth-to-View, God-manifesting-Himself. Thus, there are not two beings,