It is I who am the All. From Me did the All come forth, and unto Me did the All extend. Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there. The Divine is not varying and changeable, as everything is which belongs to nature, but is unvarying and unchangeable, consequently the same everywhere and always.
Man is a recipient, and the recipient or receptacle is what varies.
The Lord is not in a greater and lesser degree of love and wisdom, that is, as a sun He is not in a greater or lesser degree of heat and light with one than with another, for He is everywhere the same. But He is not received by one in the same degree as by another. From all this it can now be seen that the Lord appears to everyone according to his quality, because according to his reception. The Divine cannot be seen by anyone otherwise than according to the state of his life and the perception therefrom. On this account, the Divine as imaged forth presents a variety of appearances.