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Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902

"Erewhon Revisited"

He said--
1. God is the baseless basis of all thoughts, things, and deeds.
2. So that those who say that there is a God, lie, unless they also
mean that there is no God; and those who say that there is no God,
lie, unless they also mean that there is a God.
3. It is very true to say that man is made after the likeness of God;
and yet it is very untrue to say this.
4. God lives and moves in every atom throughout the universe.
Therefore it is wrong to think of Him as 'Him' and 'He,' save as by
the clutching of a drowning man at a straw.
5. God is God to us only so long as we cannot see Him. When we are
near to seeing Him He vanishes, and we behold Nature in His stead.
6. We approach Him most nearly when we think of Him as our expression
for Man's highest conception, of goodness, wisdom, and power. But we
cannot rise to Him above the 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.


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