Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
SEES LESSON IN
PRINTERS ERROR
HIND00 DISCUSSES DEITYS
PERSONALITY
Had Intended to Speak Of the Human
Side only, but Finds the
Two Are lden-
ticaI

for his subject, ''Is God Personal?" He
said in part:
"I have been made the victim of the
printers prank many time since
have come to this coast in regard to
the subjects of my lectures. They
have, at times, these printers, adver-
tised subjects for my lectures which
had not the least notion Of Tonight
the same difficulty occurs. The adver-
tisements announce me to lecture on
is God Personal?' while the signs at
the temple gates announce that l am
to lecture on rs God Human There
seems to be a psychology about the
muddle this time. The signs at the
gates had the word personal through
mistake and were corrected into hui
man afterward. Was 1t a pure mis-
take of memory? 1t doesn't seem so,
for the papers have all made 1t per-
sonal.' Doesn't it look psychological?
at does seem so to me, for, ponder
ing on the matter of this mistake, 1
found out that it is due to the inspira-
ton of the truth back of the two
words. It flashed through me that to
call God personal or human is saying
the same thing. Yes, God is both per-
sonal and impersonal: and God is both
human and divine. And 1 found out
further that what is personal is hui
man. So the signs and the papers are
both right, and they have given me an
illumination for which 1 thank them
heartily.
God Is Both
"That God is personal and imper-
sonal will be clear to any deep-thlnk-
ing mind. God In His all-pervasive-
ness is impersonal. But the all-per-
vasive God is full Of centers in the
manifestation of His energy. This
manifested energy of God, called Life,
called Creation, is made up of atoms,
and every atom of that energy of life
is a center And all these atomic CEN
ters derive their force and expression
fromsa grand center which Is the per-
fection of life and expression. This
grand center of perfect life is God the
personal aspect of God This person
ality of God is the center of His all
pervading self as well as the centri-
fugal force of all creation. 1t is the
perfect central personal expression OF
His impersonal infinity. This personal
self of God, being but the perfected ex-
preston of His infinite existence, Is
also infinite, having back of it the con-
densed essence and energies of His in
finity, just as the sun is all-pervading
in its manifestation of heat and light,
of which it's orb/is the center. How
can God be only impersonal If you, a
manifestation
vading essence, are personal? If he Is
only impersonal, how can you, a per-
sonal being, commune with and pray
to Him. an impersonal being? No,
Gods impersonality Is in His essence
which pervades you, as 1T pervades
everything else, as the basic principle
of your existence, and forms your SOUL
But Gods energy, the manifestation
of His essence, is His personality, with
which you can come In touch and COM
mune through your personality, which
is the manifested energy of your own
soul, the part of God in you.
Personal God Visible
"The impersonal God being nothing
but essence, knows nothing but Him
SELF being all in all in everything, be-
ing the One without a second. The
impersonal God is not even conscious
of its energy When it becomes con-
scious of it's energy then Creation,
Life springs into being. The IT. then,
is He That He, the manifestation
of His personality, is in communion
with you and they the parts of His
energy's creation, and you and they
can commune with Him. This per-
sonal God, this He has somewhere a
perfect finite-looking expression of His
personality, with His almighty powers
with perfect organs of the senses
through which He and you can be in
communication with Him by thought.
This perfect expression of the personal
God is visible to your God-illumined
mind, to your soul-illumined eyes.
God Is Human
God is not only personal and visible.
but Is even human. What people un-
n nd hxy ahIIT1a
mal Man is not an animal, he is di-
vine-the perfect man is divine, the
man purged of his animality is divine.
1t is his consciousness of the animal
part of him that deprives him of his di-
vine heritage. When he thinks of his
divine part, his soul, or when he thinks
of God, the Universal Soul, of which
his soul is a connected infinitesimal
part, he is no more human in the sense
of animal. His consciousness is then
on the divine plane, is part of the di-
vine plane. He is then in company with
God who is the spiritual perfection of
the human. Love this God, this hu-
man God, and pray and commune with
Him humanity He is your Father,
Brother and Lover all in one. The
forms of human affections-the affec-
tion of father, son, daughter, brother.
sister, wife, husband-are the different
which He is. So approach God in your
mind, humanity. and try to love Him
with any of these human forms Of af-
lection, whichever appeals to you, and
He will respond to you humanity, for
He is the Human in humanity, the hu-
man that aspires to divinity. that is
conscious of the divinity within Him
self. Draw Him close to you as you
draw the human being you love, and
He will come and keep closer to you
than any human being will ever do.
Don't keep Him away up in the watery
clouds. He will catch cold there. But
rather invite and welcome Him into the
warmth OF your hearts inmost cham
ber and He will be grateful for It, bless
you for 1t, reward you for 1t and love
you all the more for II"
"Why does woman always skip to
the last chapter OF book?"
"Out of politeness," said Miss Cay
enne. "She wants TO be able to talk to
the person who insisted on lending 1t
as II she had read Washington