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body. The Son responded to the Father as the body responds to its own soul, the Son being the special expression of the Father in time and space before the eyes of men, and not differing from Him. Jesus continued:

"For as the Father raiseth the dead and giveth them life, even so the Son also giveth life to whom he will. For neither doth the Father judge any man."

If we think of the Father as the Divine Love and the Son as the Divine Truth, or the expression of the Divine Love, we can understand this statement more clearly. Thus, the Divine Love does not judge any man; it is not the nature of love to judge; but the truth does judge.

Hence, "But he hath given all judgment unto the Son; that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son, honoreth not the Father that sent him." (John 5:21—23.) Could he not well have added here, as he did elsewhere, the reason for it, because "I and the Father are one"?

Is not this, indeed, God expressing Himself on the outward plane of nature that all men may understand Him? If we think that this is not