The One Supreme Intelligence, under whatever name this is breathed: whether that mystical and sacred Name which never has been pronounced, which belonged to Egypt, but which, under the name Jehovah, was brought into the Hebraic religion; the incommunicable, unspeakable name IHUH; the Jesod; the Jod, He, Vau, He; the leoua; or whether- syllabled in the Ra, the Om, of the ancients; the Tetragrammaton .Osiris.was not the physical sun, but a symbol from an Angel to express the Deidy and relation to man, the Sun of the Soul; the Light; the luminous power of Intelligence, personified in the Infinite.

Whatever be the title or designation of that Infinite Being, God la only known within the Soul, and only understood in its innermost and divinest conception; this is what we mean by the name God. There can be no other Infinite; there can be no other Omniscient, Omnipresent, Infinite Being: the Deity.

Many people say they cannot understand an Infinite Personality. Neither can you understand a larger finite personality, nor an illimitable universe. But God is Infinite Being; and the Soul is also Being. As science declares the universe from the atom, we declare God and the Soul from eternity.

Human knowledge proceeds from the relatively known to the unknown. Revelation proceeds from the unknown, the absolute, to the known; from the boundless, limitless, to the limited, the relative, the enchained. All knowledge of the Spiritual is a priori knowledge. The realm of God and the Soul is possession; the realm of creation is expression. The Supreme Consciousness of the universe is God, the supreme consciousness of man is the Soul. These make up the consciousness of the universe.

This Infinite Consciousness, or Love, is All-potent, Omniscient, Eternal, Omnipresent, and is the prototype for the Soul, absolutely and perfectly.

The Infinite is Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Eternal; the Soul is finite and eternal, but not omnipresent, not omniscient, not infinite. God is the Infinite Being of eternity. The Soul is the only entity excepting God, and has its being in eternity, but has its existence and expression in the universe. The Soul exists in and has to do with the universe, hut God alone is the Infiniverse; the Soul has to do with all kinds of expressions in time and eternity, but they mast be subject to limitations, while God is All in All, now and forevermore.

That which is without beginning or ending would illustrate the Soul, as a complete circle; while a globe would illustrate the Infinite, which is more than a wheel, which is illustrated by a sphere of wheels. The eternal circle of the existence of the Soul is: in that which has been, that which is, and that which will he, but limited in scope. The Infinite Sphere is: all that has been, all that is, and all that will be.

The Soul is an eternal, immortal, finite entity.

The Soul is related to God as the finite to the Infinite, the resemblance being in quality, but not in scope. To use an illustration, which is not to be taken literally, but relatively, the quality of the drop of water is the same as the quality of water in the whole ocean; but the globule or drop will never become the ocean - even though it Beams to be lost in the ocean, its entity as a globule is the same; or as you are encompassed by the walls of this room and pervaded by its atmosphere, but you are neither the room nor the atmosphere, nor are yon composed of parts of the room or atmosphere, nor are you a part of either. To further illustrate or compare the quality of the Soul with the quality of the Infinite, we would compare the single ray of light with the whole of the rays of light that emanate from a sun or solar center; bat yon must not make the mistake of supposing that we mean, therefore, that the Infinite is composed of the whole number of finite Souls, for then the Infinite would be limited to the number of Souls in the universe, but such is not the case; the Soul has its being within the Infinite, but is not the Infinite. The finite and the Infinite are not interchangeable; therefore the Soul never becomes Infinite, nor is it lost in the Infinite, nor does the Infinite ever become finite; that would imply limitation.

With these definitions you are prepared to know, as the Soul bears always the same relation to the Infinite, as it is immortal and in eternity: there is no beginning to, nor can there be any cessation of, its being. It is nucleate as God is; but, as the Soul is finite, its being must forever be encompassed by the Infinite. The power of under-standing this relation is innate in the Soul of man, no other basis is possible; when you endeavor to consider Deity by any other method except that which belongs to the Soul, there is failure. It is from the Soul that there is the first perception and conception of God, that there is recognition of God, and that there is satisfaction with the consciousness of the presence of God.

These statements, concerning the Infinite and finite, must be borne in mind through this entire series of lessons: the Soul never changes places with the Infinite; the Soul is never nearer the Infinite; the Soul is not remote from the Infinite.