All this work seems entirely independent until we remember that
ether, matter, life, the psychic factor, are manifests of Infinite
and Eternal Reality. But when we so remember, we see that
personality consisting of a conscious self and a body is similarly
a manifest of that Reality.
This conclusion will appear to identify man and Deity unless we
discriminate a little. Every object in Nature is a manifest of
Infinite and Eternal Reality, but the latter transcends the former
simply because the object is such a manifest, A thing which is a
manifest or expression of something superior cannot be identified
with the superior something. I am not the words which I write,
although they manifest me and could not exist without me. Every
object in Nature is precisely what it is as a manifest of Reality.
There is scant freedom in the natural world apart from man.
Nothing in Nature could be other than it is. Man, on the other
hand, is a manifest of Infinite and Eternal Reality in the sense
that he has a body, and must have one, and is a personality and
must be one (if he is man); but in the man psychic factor has come
to consciousness, and consciousness, as we have seen, always
reveals itself in SELF-DIRECTION AND SELF-ORGANIZATION ACCORDING
TO ITS DEVELOPED POWER TO THINK OF ITSELF AS SELF-CONSCIOUS
EXISTENCE.
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