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12 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
they are all his—and can they be his only in proportion
as he lives in this harmony.
When man obeys the laws of his own being, he lives
in harmony with nature.
When man is in harmony with nature, he is in har
mony with God, the Author of all harmonies.
For a man to follow nature, to live according to phys
iological laws, or to obey God, is one and the same
thing. In doing one, he does the other. "For wheth
er we eat, or drink, or whatever we do, let us do all to
the glory of God."
God's being is comprehensible, only so far as He is
manifested to us in nature. He is visible and tangible
in these manifestations and laws. Our best knowledge
of God comes out of our own consciousness, we being
the highest and most complete reproduction of Himself,
of which we have any knowledge.
and likeness created He him."
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" In His own
God seems to us to be of necessity self-existent,
having no maker, and consequently eternal, or without
beginning. And as we can not suppose a God eternally
idle and alone, or without active manifestation, or life,
we are driven to the belief in the equal eternity of the
universe. The power of God seems only bounded by
possibilities, principles, and laws. God can not do a
thing physically or mathematically impossible ; nor a
thing wrong or morally impossible ; and He seems to
be subject to certain laws of progress, in virtue of
which the world must pass through certain stages of
development, before the establishment of entire har
mony.
Aside from God, and nature, and man, there seem