In considering this vast and momentous subject, first, let us take a topic with which we are all more or less familiar, the science of numbers. The problem exists in and depends upon the principle for its foundation and support. But the principle is not confined in the problem expressed or unexpressed. The evidence of the principle is there, i.e., the principle is represented in the problem as it comes to our perception, written or unwritten. The principle is not the problem, neither is the problem the principle. Yet the problem depends upon the principle; so that all who are governed by the same rules, with the same end in view, will arrive at the same results; and the principle depends upon the problem for its expression. The problem is the reflection of principle, brought to our consciousness in a combination of thoughts expressed in one complete and harmonious whole. Yet no two problems are, or could be, one and the same, and the number and variety must necessarily be as infinite as is the principle. And these numbers, unlimited as they are, forever existed, and will forever remain in that infinite principle, and are forever being expressed.
Now this law governs and controls all things. God is Divine Principle; the one, great, all-inspiring, all-supporting, comprehensive Whole—Life, Truth, Love, Intelligence, Mind, Spirit Infinite, Eternal, Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent.
A simple, self-evident, demonstrable Truth, must and will be accepted, whatever may oppose. Man and the universe are the expression of that infinite Principle, and this will become apparent to us in proportion as we are freed from the finite or limited sense. Yet man is not that Principle, and that Principle is not man, nor in man, except in the understanding. We are living, but not Life. God is Life. We are true, but not Truth; loving, but not Love; intelligent, but not Intelligence, wise, but not Wisdom; spiritual, but not Spirit; and lastly, and as a result of all this, godly, or godlike, but not God. Truth must of necessity be true. But that which is true is not necessarily Truth. That which is of Truth must be true, and must, like its Principle, live forever; must ever remain in the Infinite Mind of the Eternal Calculus, from which it never was or could be sundered.
