ABSTRACT
The characteristic uniqueness of creation is the natural outcome of the freedom of the self; it forms its own ever-new ideas, and then employs its environment for their realisation. The most primitive religions ascribe little else than power to their gods; while at a later stage, as human intelligence evolves and acquires a certain independence, might becomes associated with wisdom, although both qualities may be highly malevolent. But the development of love, on anything beyond the narrow scale referred to, proceeds under totally contrasted conditions. The divine selflessness manifests itself objectively and creatively throughout the entire universe exactly as does that of the artist in all his work. Only the ablest human intellects can form some dim conception of the nature of divine knowledge and power; once again their infinity results in so profound a gulf between man and Deity that it becomes exceedingly difficult to describe them both, in one and the same sense of the term, as selves.
