THERELATION OFMAN TOGOD 179
and if a common nomenclature is not agreed upon by writers
and teachers, the present confusion will be worse
confounded. When the name “God” is used it is always
uncertain whether The Absolute, the One Existence, is
mea nt; or The Supreme Being, Who is the Great Architect of
the Universe; or God, Who is the Architect of our Solar
System.
The division of the Godhead into “Father,” “Son” and
“Holy Ghost” is also confusing. Although the Beings
designated by these names are immeasurably above man and
worthy of all the reverence and worship he is capable of
rendering to his highest conceptions of Divinity, yet They
are different from one another in actual fact.
Diagrams 6 and 12 will perhaps make the subject clear.
It must be kept in mind that the Worlds and Cosmic Planes
are not one above another in space, but that the seven
Cosmic Planes interpenetrate each other and all the seven
Worlds. They are states of spirit-matter, permeating one
another, so that God and the other great Beings who are
mentioned are not far away in space. They pervade every
part of their own realms and realms of greater density than
their own. They are all present in our world and are actually
andde facto “nearer than hands and feet.” It is a literal truth
when we say “in Him we live and move and have our
being,” for none of us could exist outside these great
Intelligences Who pervade and sustain our world with Their
Life.
It has been shown that the Etheric Region extends
beyond the atmosphere of our dense Earth; that the Desire
World extends out into space further than the Etheric
Region; also that the World of Thought extends further into
interplanetary Space than either of the others. Of course, the
Worlds of rarer substance occupy a larger space than the