God, speaking to Christ
as the highest type of humanity, says--
If thou humblest thyself, thou humblest me.
Thou also dwellst in Eternity.
Thou art a man: God is no more:
Thy own humanity learn to adore,
For that is my Spirit of Life.[75]
Similarly the union of man with God is the whole gist of that
apparently most chaotic of the prophetic books, _Jerusalem_.
The proof of the divinity of man, it would seem, lies in the fact that
he desires God, for he cannot desire what he has not seen. This view is
summed up in the eight sentences which form the little book (about 2
inches long by 11/2 inches broad) in the British Museum, _Of Natural
Religion_. Here are four of them.
Man's perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception, he
perceives more than sense (tho' ever so acute) can discover.
None could have other than natural or organic thoughts if he had
none but organic perceptions.
Man's desires are limited by his perceptions, none can desire what
he has not perceiv'd.
The desires and perceptions of man untaught by anything but organs
of sense, must be limited to objects of sense.
The solution of the difficulty is given in large script on the last of
the tiny pages of the volume:
Therefore God becomes as we are, that we may be as he is.
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