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spiritual energy is directed on something outward then is it a thought," a statement which I believed, then, since I could think, I must be of spiritual substance, possessing spiritual energy. Then I turned to Spinoza and read, "If God be Infinite Substance, there can be no substance outside of God, and Man is therefore no substance, or he is God." This corroborated my thought as to the oneness of substance. Substance, according to Spinoza, is not a material apart or distinct from God, which he manipulates in the formation of worlds. He teaches instead, "Extension is an attribute of God, or God is an extended thing."

If God or Substance be an extended thing, then no point of extension can be other than intelligent Substance, for unintelligent Substance could not be God-Substance.

If God creates by the extension of Himself, then Man is formed by the pushing forth into externals of God-Substance, hence Man is either no Substance or he is God-Substance. But while Man is formed by the extension of Substance, he is also formed by the limitation of Substance, for were he not limited he would have no form. God is limitless in extension and also limited in extension. This sounds contradictory, but it is as though Infinite and Unlimited Substance should set up within itself limits. Indeed the very conception of infinite extension implies infinite limits; for when the mind attempts to think of extension infinitely extended, it reaches out into space, until it is forced to set up a limit;