Man is a center of God in God. Whatever God is in the universal world, man must be in his individual world. The difference between God and man is one of degree and not of quality. Man is not self-made; he is God-made.

The question might arise, why did God do this? No living person can answer this question. This is something that is known only of the Father. We might suppose that God made man to live with Him and to enjoy with Him. To be One with the Father. It is true; indeed, that those who have felt this most deeply have had a corresponding spiritual power that leads us to suppose that God really did make man as a companion.

Man is the individual and God is the Universal. "For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself." Man's mind is made out of God's Mind, and all that man is or ever will be, all that he has or ever will have, must partake of the Divine nature. Man did not make is so, but it is so; he must accept the fact and see what he can do with it.

If we follow this idea through, we find ourselves living in a very different world from the one in which we thought we were living. God governs not through physical law as result, but first by inner knowing - then the physical follows. In the same way, man governs his world by the process which we will call, for want of a better name, the power of his thought. Is it any wonder that the Bible says "and with all thy getting get understanding"?

Jesus understood all this, and so it was no more effort for him to do what he did than it is for us to breathe or to digest our food. He understood that is all. A thinking person will be compelled to admit that creation is first spiritual, then through mental law, physical in its manifestation.