GOD AND MAN 



Nzambi 



WE must now revert to the Bavili idea of God, 

 which is that he is a personality who has in himself all 

 the " fours," the leading names of w r hich we have been 

 discussing. He is, in fact, the essence of the fours. 



The fours are, as I have pointed out, composed of 

 the main idea or leading name which I have tried to 

 give under the different categories of physical, thinking 

 propagating, emotional, feeling, law-abiding man and 

 three other complementary parts which I have not 

 given. This main idea and its three complementary 

 parts are expressed in the native philosophy as the 

 ancestor, father, mother, and offspring parts. The 

 resultant offspring is through the mother, of the 

 father, and from the ancestor. We may then very 

 rightly describe the Bavili's idea of God as the 

 personality from whom are all things, of whom are all 

 things, through whom are all things, and in whom are 

 all things. 



