And what we love most, power and love in one,

Let us acknowledge on the record here,

Accepting these in Christ: must Christ then be?

Has he been? Did not we ourselves make him?

Our mind receives but what it holds, no more.

First of the love, then; we acknowledge Christ—

A proof we comprehend his love, a proof

We had such love already in ourselves,

Knew first what else we should not recognize.

'T is mere projection from man's inmost mind,