14 This universal God is wisdom, will and love.
15 All men see not the Triune God. One sees him as the God of might; another as the God of thought; another as the God of love.
16 A man’s ideal is his God, and so, as man unfolds, his God unfolds. Man’s God today, tomorrow is not God.
17 The nations of the earth see God from different points of view, and so he does not seem the same to every one.
18 Man names the part of God he sees, and this to him is all of God; and every nation sees a part of God, and every nation has a name for God.
19 You Brahmans call him Parabrahm; in Egypt he is Thoth; and Zeus is his name in Greece; Jehovah is his Hebrew name; but everywhere he is the causeless Cause, the rootless Root from which all things have grown.
20 When men become afraid of God, and take him for a foe, they dress up other men in fancy garbs and call them priests,
21 And charge them to restrain the wrath of God by prayers; and when they fail to win his favor by their prayers, to buy him off with sacrifice of animal, or bird,
22 When man sees God as one with him, as Father-God, he needs no middle man, no priest to intercede;
23 He goes straight up to him and says, My Father-God! and then he lays his hand in God’s own hand, and all is well.