Moses seems to have been the first among men to realize and to demonstrate that there is but one Ego. To him God was the great "I am that I am." He understood that man reflected the infinite when he obeyed the divine will and sought the counsel of the Almighty.
It is recorded of Moses that he was the meekest of men. By this we understand that in his great work of leading the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt, he put himself altogether on one side, and took every step of the way in obedient response to the guidance he sought continually from the omnipotent I am. But clearly as the great Hebrew leader grasped this basic truth himself, he had to feed a turbulent and ignorant people—stupid from the heavy yoke of long generations of serfdom—with food convenient for them. The moral law which he was guided to impose, lifted them above the physical goad of the Egyptian taskmaster and enabled them to take the first step into the realm of Mind.
Before the close of his life-work, Moses reiterated, in triumphant song of praise, the imperative truth of the one absolute Ego: "See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me." Seven centuries later the prophet Isaiah voiced to a nation that had learned what moral discipline and obedience meant: "I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins."
