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.

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