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”—these are the words not only of the Master but of us all—we too may say—

I AM—

I AM the Existent—

I AM the All-Inclusive—

I AM the Infinite.

The Unity of Man—this does not mean the union of one man with another merely, not the homogeneity of the race, but the absolute unity of man 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 man; a separation of man from God, which is not really so. A clearer view may be got by thinking of God as breathing into the limited and time-and-space-bound-physical man the breath of his being—and man 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 its full development might be attained by the fighting with that which seemed to be antagonistic to its divine nature.

“I AWOKE!” Conditions of Life on the other Side, David Stott, London, 1895