te Power is creating, working, ruling
through the agency of great immutable laws and forces that run through
all the universe, that surround us on every side. Every act of our
every-day lives is governed by these same great laws and forces. Every
flower that blooms by the wayside, springs up, grows, blooms, fades,
according to certain great immutable laws. Every snowflake that plays
between earth and heaven, forms, falls, melts, according to certain
great unchangeable laws.

In a sense there is nothing in all the great universe but law. If this
is true there must of necessity be a force behind it all that is the
maker of these laws and a force greater than the laws that are made.
This Spirit of Infinite Life and Power that is behind all is what I
call God. I care not what term you may use, be it Kindly Light,
Providence, the Over Soul, Omnipotence, or whatever term may be most
convenient. I care not what the term may be as long as we are agreed
in regard to the great central fact itself.

God, then, is this Infinite Spirit which fills all the universe with
Himself alone, so that all is from Him and in Him, and there is nothing
that is outside. Indeed and in truth, then, in Him we live and move
and have our being. He is the life of our life, our very life itself.
We have received, we are continually receiving our life from Him. We
are partakers of the life of God; and though we differ from Him in that
we are individualized spirits, while He is the Infinite Spirit
including us as well as all else beside, _yet in essence the life of
God and the life of man are identically the same, and so are one_.
They differ not in essence, in quality; they differ in degree.

There have been and are highly illumined souls who believe that we
receive our life from God after the manner of a divine inflow. And
again, there have been and are those who believe that our life is one
with the life of God, and so that God and man are one. Which is right?
Both are right; both right when rightly understood.

In regard to the first: if God is the Infinite Spirit of Life behind
all, whence all comes, then clearly our life as individualized spirits
is continually coming from this Infinite Source by means of this divine
inflow. In the second place, if our lives as individualized spirits
are directly from, are parts of this Infinite Spirit of Life, then the
degree of the Infinite Spirit that is manifested in the life of each
must be iden