level of our own highest selves.

7. We remove ourselves most far from Him when we invest Him with
human form and attributes.

8. My father the sun, the earth, the moon, and all planets that roll
round my father, are to God but as a single cell in our bodies to
ourselves.

9. He is as much above my father, as my father is above men and
women.

10. The universe is instinct with the mind of God. The mind of God
is in all that has mind throughout all worlds. There is no God but
the Universe, and man, in this world is His prophet.

11. God's conscious life, nascent, so far as this world is concerned,
in the infusoria, adolescent in the higher mammals, approaches
maturity on this earth in man. All these living beings are members
one of another, and of God.

12. Therefore, as man cannot live without God in the world, so
neither can God live in this world without mankind.

13. If we speak ill of God in our ignorance it may be forgiven us;
but if we speak ill of His Holy Spirit indwelling in good men and
women it may not be forgiven us.

The Head Manager now resumed his place by President Gurgoyle's side, and
the President in the name of his Majesty the King declared the temple to
be hereby dedicated to the contemplation of the Sunchild and the better
exposition of his teaching. This was all that was said. The reliquary
was then brought forward and placed at the top of the steps leading from
the apse to the nave; but the original intention of carrying it round the
temple was abandoned for fear of accidents through the pressure round it
of the enormous multitudes who were assembled. More singing followed of
a simple but impressive kind; during this I am afraid I must own that my
father, tired with his walk, dropped off into a refreshing slumber, from
which he did not wake till George nudged him and told him not to snore,
just as the Vice-Manager was going towards the lectern to read another
chapter of the Sunchild's Sayings--which was as follows:-

The Sunchild also spoke to us a parable about the unwisdom of the
children yet unborn, who though they know so much, yet do not know as
much as they think they do.

He said:-

"The unborn have knowledge of one another so long as they are unborn,
and this without impediment from walls or material obstacles. The
unborn children in any city form a population apart, who talk with one