as we recognize, the most perfect receptacle of the outflowing life of God in all created things; and if God wanted to reveal Himself to us as beings created in His image and likeness, capable of understanding Him at least in a way that no other created thing can do, how would He proceed to do it? What would be the most probable mode?
Well, we have seen that we are made in the image and likeness of God; hence we must resemble the original, in whose image and likeness we are made. Hence God must be man; God must be essential Man—primal Man, because of which fact all creation, a projection of the Divine, is distinguishably in the human form, and we, as its highest expression, are most perfectly in the human form, but all fitted to receive the Divine. Life flows into creation because it is adapted to receive it—adapted by likeness to receive and in its turn manifest it. Man, as the most perfect recipient, gives us the best idea of the Creator.
This does not mean that we are to think of God in the terms of space, as a great physical giant who presides over the destinies of the universe. God is not physical at all, except as the
