but one Being. Just as our soul as it is in itself needs to have a body through which it can manifest itself to the world, so the Infinite God, Essential Being, needed to have a body or proceeding in form in order to make Himself manifest in time and space. But let us bear in mind that Essential God and God-Coming-Forth-to- View would not be two Gods, but merely two phases of the one only God.
When we think of the quality of God, His inmost character of Love,—or as perceived as the Divine Good,—we think of the Father; but we cannot see that inmost quality except in its form of the Son, the Divine Wisdom, or the Divine Truth. While this coming forth to view in time and space created the impression of two separate beings, they were not two, but one, as Jesus said, "I and the Father are one"— identical. "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father."
When God would manifest Himself in time and space He provided, as we have seen, a soul-form taken from the truth as it existed in the angelic heavens and in the minds of good spirits and men. It was truth from the Divine as it existed in the heavens in the minds of others;
