DLW 285, 286 - Thinking About God the Creator

DLW 285 [3]

God,
who appears far above the spiritual world as the sun,
to whom cannot be attributed
any appearance of space,
must not be thought of in terms of space.
One can then comprehend the fact
that He created the universe,
not out of nothing,
but out of Himself.
One can further comprehend that His human body
cannot be thought of as great or small,
or as having any stature,
because this, too, involves space;
consequently that in the first and last of things,
and in the greatest and least of them,
He is the same;
and furthermore that His Humanity
is inmostly within every created thing,
but independently of space.

DLW 286

The assertion that God could not have created
the universe and all its constituents
without His being human
may be quite clearly comprehended
by any intelligent person from this consideration,
that he cannot deny to himself
that God encompasses in Him love and wisdom,
mercy and clemency, and absolute good and truth,
because these originate from Him.
And because he cannot deny this,
he also cannot deny that God is human.
For none of these qualities
can exist apart from a human being,
since the human being is the underlying vessel
of which they are predicated,
and to divorce them from that vessel
is to say they have no reality.

Think of wisdom
and envision it apart from any person.
Does it have any reality?
Can you conceive of it
as something ethereal or as something flame-like?
You cannot,
unless perhaps you conceive of it in such entities,
and if you do,
it must be wisdom in a form
like that possessed by the human being.
It must be altogether in his form.
Not one element can be missing
for wisdom to exist in it.

In a word, the form of wisdom is human;
and because the form of wisdom is human,
so, too, is the form of love, of mercy, of clemency,
of goodness and of truth,
since these go hand in hand with wisdom.