The character of God, or the qualities of Spirit, cannot be ascertained by the five personal senses. To make the attempt to ascertain of Him by these means is to hasten toward belief in the big personality of the God of the modern outcome of pagan mysticism. The finite cannot take cognizance of the Infinite; for as the finite approaches the Infinite it is destroyed.
Our old human views were blasphemous, and fell far short of ascribing to God the high character and dignity which Jesus taught us to honor. And the idea of most people even now, despite their Bible's spiritual instruction, of the man made after the image and likeness of God, is the sinning, sick and dying counterfeit called Adam—and they mourn and lament his imperfection.
Jesus showed when "he took upon himself" form, or personality, that it was foreign to the "actual of his being," for he said, "Before Abraham was, I am." Personality in form is a transitory and unreal condition of existence; but proving this does not destroy our identity, for we forever exist, a thought of the eternal Mind—as the picture exists, a thought of the artist, who, while holding many mental pictures, keeps each distinct by itself, (the finite painting being the destructible counterfeit of the original,) so is the true man the idea of the Supreme Mind, and we as personalities with form and imperfections, are but the unreal images of that perfect conception.
