These are the words of the Sunchild about God and man.  He said—­

   1.  God is the baseless basis of all thoughts, things, and deeds.

   2.  So that those who say that there is a God, lie, unless they also
   mean that there is no God; and those who say that there is no God,
   lie, unless they also mean that there is a God.

   3.  It is very true to say that man is made after the likeness of God;
   and yet it is very untrue to say this.

   4.  God lives and moves in every atom throughout the universe. 
   Therefore it is wrong to think of Him as ‘Him’ and ‘He,’ save as by
   the clutching of a drowning man at a straw.

   5.  God is God to us only so long as we cannot see Him.  When we are
   near to seeing Him He vanishes, and we behold Nature in His stead.

   6.  We approach Him most nearly when we think of Him as our expression
   for Man’s highest conception, of goodness, wisdom, and power.  But we
   cannot rise to Him above the level of our own highest selves.

   7.  We remove ourselves most far from Him when we invest Him with
   human form and attributes.

   8.  My father the sun, the earth, the moon, and all planets that roll
   round my father, are to God but as a single cell in our bodies to
   ourselves.

   9.  He is as much above my father, as my father is above men and
   women.

   10.  The universe is instinct with the mind of God.  The mind of God
   is in all that has mind throughout all worlds.  There is no God but
   the Universe, and man, in this world is His prophet.

11.  God’s conscious life, nascent, so far as this world is concerned, in the infusoria, adolescent in the higher mammals, approaches maturity on this earth in man.  All these living beings are members one of another, and of God.

   12.  Therefore, as man cannot live without God in the world, so
   neither can God live in this world without mankind.

   13.  If we speak ill of God in our ignorance it may be forgiven us;
   but if we speak ill of His Holy Spirit indwelling in good men and
   women it may not be forgiven us.

The Head Manager now resumed his place by President Gurgoyle’s side, and the President in the name of his Majesty the King declared the temple to be hereby dedicated to the contemplation of the Sunchild and the better exposition of his teaching.  This was all that was said.  The reliquary was then brought forward and placed at the top of the steps leading from the apse to the nave; but the original intention of carrying it round the temple was abandoned for fear of accidents through the pressure round it of the enormous multitudes who were assembled.  More singing followed of a simple but impressive kind; during this I am afraid I must own that my father, tired with his walk, dropped off into a refreshing slumber, from which he did not wake till George nudged him and told him not to snore, just as the Vice-Manager was going towards the lectern to read another chapter of the Sunchild’s Sayings—­which was as follows:-