mother very often gives the correct answer, God made Himself. There is the whole secret, and when we come down --- or rather when we rise --- to the level of these souls whose pure intuitions have not been warped by arguments drawn only from the outside of things, we see that the principle of continual self-creation into all varieties of individuality affords the true clue to all that we are and to all that is around us; and when we see this, the teaching regarding the I AM in ourselves becomes clear, logical, and simple.
Then we understand that the Law of our Whole Being --- that which is Cause as well as Effect --- is the reproduction in Individuality of the same Power which makes the worlds; and when this is understood in its Wholeness, we see that this principle cannot, as manifested in us, be in opposition to its manifestation of itself in other forms. The Whole must be homogeneous; that which is homogeneous cannot act in opposition to itself; and consequently this homogeneous principle, which underlies all individuality and is the I AM in each, can never act contrary to the Law of Life. Therefore, to know ourselves as the concentration of this principle into a focus of self-recognition is to be at one with the Life-Principle which is in all worlds and under all forms.
The "Son"
It is this recognition of our own Individuality as being a reproduction of the Universal Principle in
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