Now, however, that we know heredity to
be only a necessary outcome, development and manifestation of memory-
-so that, given such a faculty as memory, the faculty of heredity
follows as being inherent therein and bound to issue from it--in like
manner presently, instead of seeing life as a thing created by God,
we shall see God and life as one thing, there being no life without
God nor God without life, where there is life there is God and where
there is God there is life.
They say that God is love, but life and love are co-extensive; for
hate is but a mode of love, as life and death lurk always in one
another; and "God is life" is not far off saying "God is love."
Again, they say, "Where there is life there is hope," but hope is of
the essence of God, for it is faith and hope that have underlain all
evolution.
God and Flesh
The course of true God never did run smooth. God to be of any use
must be made manifest, and he can only be made manifest in and
through flesh. And flesh to be of any use (except for eating) must
be alive, and it can only be alive by being inspired of God. The
trouble lies in the getting the flesh and the God together in the
right proportions. There is lots of God and lots of flesh, but the
flesh has always got too much God or too little, and the God has
always too little flesh or too much.
Gods and Prophets
It is the manner of gods and prophets to begin: "Thou shalt have
none other God or Prophet but me.
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