consciousness." In other words, he perceives that consciousness and intelligence are not bound up in a physical universe or a physical body. Consciousness exists apart from all that we can examine with the five senses. It exists before creation and after.

It is not going too far to say, then, that creation is the body of God. Yet, as it would be absurd to say that the powers of man's mind are confined to his body, so is it absurd to say that all there is of God is bound up in the physical and visible universe. As all the forces of my mind can be converged to one intense point of interest, so can all the powers of the Divine Mind be brought to apply to any task which It may seek to perform. Perceiving that there is a universal intelligence apart from all limitations of time and space, we must conclude that Divine Mind can and does act, with limitless or infinite power, on its own thought. For since physical energy is but the emergence into expression of the Divine thought, for God to think is to act. When Mind acts, it is with limitless intelligence, since it is the All Mind: It acts with limitless freedom since, as the Universal, It can have nothing outside Itself to constrain it to act contrary to its own desire. Being the homogeneous, non-dissociable, limitless One, It can have no rivals; and there is no place in the Universe for any spirit or Being contrary to Its Nature. "If God be for us, who can be against us!" Thus, when we speak of the "Cosmic Consciousness," we are speaking of the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent One, whom we call God.

THE NAMES OF GOD

Is there any advantage in using this other term