The Unity of Man

What is man that Thou art mindful of him?

Ah! he is indeed Thyself, and thou God art myself; I and He are one; I came from God and I shall return to Him.

Before Abraham was, I AM.

The Master's words highlight our absolute unity with God as one in essential being, if not in present potentiality. We often say God created man. This is apt to produce a false impression, for we think of a creation of something out of nothing; a beginning to be of humanity; our separation from God, which is not really so. Clearer to think of God as breathing into the limited and time-and-space-bound-physical man the breath of His being—and humanity became. The eternal purpose that had always been and always would be was thus manifested in phenomena and became for a time subject to bondage—that our full development might be attained by the fighting with that which seemed to be antagonistic to our divine nature.

I AWOKE! Conditions of Life on the other Side, Author Unknown, London, 1895