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men are worshipping other Gods, and he becomes 

 anxious and troubled, not realising that Gods are 

 many because we are worshipping our own thoughts 

 of God instead of God, our own limited representa- 

 tions instead of the Universal Self. Nay more 

 I, perhaps, not only say to you that you must 

 worship my conception of God instead of your own, 

 that my knowledge is the limit of manifestation, 

 that my small fancies make up the universe instead 

 of the infinite diversity that alone can represent 

 His might ; but perhaps I go further and say : 

 " If you do not worship my idea of God, you are 

 outcaste, you are alien, you belong to a different 

 faith, you belong to a different creed ; stand out- 

 side ; for I am orthodox, you are heretic and 

 blasphemous your faith." So speaks religion 

 after religion, fanatic after fanatic ; so one man 

 after another makes his own reflection the God 

 of the universe, and hence antagonises his brethren, 

 whose representations of the divine image are as 

 necessary to its completeness as his own. 



That is what I ask you to realise. God cannot 

 be expressed wholly in you or in me, in our miser- 

 able limitations, in our poverty of thought, in our 

 wretchedness of impudent assumption. He can only 

 be even partially expressed by all the worlds to- 

 gether ; His whole universe is His mirror, and every 



