By Ann Rollins (in 1916), from The Gospel of God’s Love, page 57.
“The human mind, when left to itself (that is, to it’s own evolution), and not influenced by revelations of spiritual truths or suggestions of spirits who have advanced in knowledge of things beyond the material, has not improved much since the days when humans worshipped the sun, or sacred cats, bulls, and the storm’s thunder and lightening. God was, in all these manifestations, immanent and “real” to be appeased or loved as required. And today, among the wise men of your civilized nations who can see no God in the spiritual, the aggregate of all these material things is the God which they worship, if they worship at all.
“Nature is god to them, and so you see the only improvement that their minds have over the “sun worshippers, etc” is that their minds are not satisfied to see God as a single manifestation, but must have a combination of all of them, which they call “nature.” It is only a difference in degree. The scientist today, who refuses to accept any God who may be spiritual in nature, is the exact counterpart of his so-called barbarian brother who could see Him only in the sun, etc., except that they demand a “larger’ God, who must be in the lowest form of mineral existence as well as in the highest form of solar excellence, and even in man (for some, man is his own and only God).
It is questionable whether these wise men are not more limited in their conception of a God than were their uncivilized brothers, because many of the latter say, beyond and behind their sun god and others, is another and greater God. whom they could not see, but could feel, and in their souls realize His existence.
“But the wise men of civilization have so evolved their intellects that they have lost their soul perceptions, and so no god beyond the horizon of their intellectual perceptions can exist. And hence, as they know only nature, there can be no other god than nautre. (Mistake!)
God then, is a Being – a Soul – with a personality, that has a location, high up in His Heavens, towards whom all spirits of the Celestial, and many in the spiritual heavens, as well, are approaching; and as they approach, they experience the increased love, light and life that emanates from the Fountainhead of these attributes of Perfection. Amen