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THE SCIENCE OF CORRESPONDENCE.

warnings to think spiritually and not materially, that is, from the Divine Human character and essence, and not from space and time, but without for a moment losing sight of the idea of a Man, and of the Human Form as the beginning and end of the thought of God. And the Lord Jesus Christ is He; there is no God out of Him; or apart from Him; His Glorified Humanity is the visible God in whom is the Invisible. It seems only a confounding and confusion of counsel, to a mind trained in this doctrine, to read the following:

"We must lose sight entirely of the historical person age—the Son of Man, and rise to the contemplation of the sublime fact, that Jesus Christ united to the Father is the divine humanity of the universe—the manifested Divine Truth—which includes all truths as the sea does its waves, which is no respector of persons or forms, and which cannot be limited to any ecclesiastical channel whatever. It is best, perhaps, to call him God—for he is God—and because He is God—He is also Jehovah and Buddha, and Allah, and the Great Spirit, and the Supreme Being, and every other name whereby man in his feebleness has struggled to express his perfections."—Page 5.

If this means anything it is a confounding of the Humanity of God with the humanity of the universe, and of the Divine which proceeds from God-Man with the concepts to which it gives rise in the minds of men. With this vague conception of the "One