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save His thought. This is our glory ; for inasmuch 

 as we are in His image, we can answer to the vibra- 

 tions of His thinking, and can reproduce in our 

 minds that which He has initiated in order that we 

 may be evolved. In all the different parts of this, 

 universe, different lines of evolution are going on ; 

 the sun is doing part of it, the vegetable world 

 another part, the animal world another, the world 

 of man another ; but in the world of man there is. 

 more diversity, because there Self-consciousness is 

 arising. The final image of the Supreme on earth 

 is man ; in man alone is the highest life ; the 

 others are climbing towards it, but in them it has 

 not yet evolved. Therefore in man there is more 

 difference ; therefore in man, for the time, more 

 separation ; therefore in man the great danger of 

 antagonism that the lower kingdoms know not, 

 because they are not sufficiently evolved. Then 

 comes the conflict : I take my own poor reflection 

 of one tiny bit of thought of Ishvara, and I say : 

 " This is Ishvara Himself," and not my poor 

 thought of Him ; " Worship this as I see it," that 

 is, " Worship me instead of Ishvara, and my 

 thought of Him instead of Him." So man after 

 man puts up his idea of God as God, and we see 

 all the world divided into many forms of thought and 

 of worship. Then a man imagines that his brother 



