Chapter II: The Nature of Humanity

One may all too easily be misunderstood at this point—as though one were asserting that the human I and God were one and the same. Yet it is not said that the *I is God, but only that it is of like kind and essence with the Divine. When we say that a drop of water taken from the ocean is of the same essence or substance as the ocean, are we thereby stating that the drop is the ocean? If we must use a comparison, we may put it thus: as the drop is to the ocean, so is the I* to the Divine. Man can find a Divine within himself, because his own and most essential being springs from the Divine.