The spiritual life

Man's Questfor God. 22}

Ifalltheharshertraitswereexpungedfromthe

GodofMuhammed,andthefiercewrathwere

replaced with an immeasurable compassion,

then, for the unity and personality of the

Supreme,Theismand Islammighthnkhands.

SaysTheodoreParker:"Themodeofman's

finitebeingisofnecessityareceiving: ofGod's

infinitebeing,ofnecessityagiving. Youcannot

conceive of any finite thing existing without

God,theinfinitegroundandbasisthereof; nor

ofGodexistingwithoutsomething. Godisthe

necessarylogicalconditionofaworld,itsneces-
sitating cause; a world, the necessary logical

conditionofGod,hisnecessitated consequence.

... ItistheideaofGodasinfinite-perfectly

powerful, wise, just, loving, holy-absolute

being,withnolimitation.... His Herecon-

terminouswiththeallofspace.HisNowcoeval

withthealloftime."{TenSermonsonReligion,

pp.^338,339,341.)

"The Soul contemplates God as a being

whounitesallthesevarious modesofaction,as

manifested in truth, in right, and in love. It

apprehends him, not merelyas absolute truth,

absolute right, and absolute love alone, but as

all theseunified into one completeand perfect

being, the Infinite God. He is the absolute

object of the soul,and corresponds thereto,as