The more perfect the generalisation, the more perfect the corresponding control over conditions; and therefore to attain the most complete control, which means the most perfect Liberty, we need to conceive of ourselves as embodying the idea of the most perfect generalisation. But complete generalisation is only another expression for infinitude, and therefore we have again reached the point where it becomes impossible to attach any predicate to the verb "to Be"; and so the only statement which contains the whole Law of Man's Being is identical with the only statement which contains the whole of God's Being, and consequently I AM is as much the correct formula for Man as for God.

Sin

But if we do not believe this and make it the centre of our life, we must perish in our sins. The Bible defines "sin" as "the transgression of the Law", and Jesus' warning is that by transgressing the Law of our own Being, we shall die. It would carry me beyond the general lines of this book to discuss the question of what is here meant by "Death"; but that it is not the everlasting damnation of the Western creeds is obvious from the single statement of the Bible, that the Master employed the interval between his death and resurrection in teaching those souls who had passed out of physical life in the catastrophe of the Deluge, persons who most assuredly had perished on account of their transgression of the Law.