The vision of man as man is confined to the mind-mesh, but it is also true that God made man in His own Image. By man is meant what the Hebrews called "Aish", the Intellectual Person. But this in turn was an aspect of Adam, the Universal Man, Whose vision extends beyond the mental plane.

The potentiality of mankind is greater than that of any kingdom in all the aspects of creation or existence. The physical eye of man is like that of the animals, limited in scope, better than the eyes of some, not so good as the sight of others. But man's eyesight is more closely connected with his brain and mental life, and the mental eye of man is not like that of the animals. Some animals may see the sun and moon and be affected by them but they never think about them, they do not compare their distances or size with the sizes and distances of objects about them. Indeed the mind of animals is totally different from that of man in certain aspects, particularly in the higher aspects. Imagination enables us to transcend time while animals are completely subject to time processes.

But the eye of the heart of man possesses capacity above limitation. This capacity, while it need not be called infinite, still is beyond the scope of mental vision and measuration. In that respect it is neither infinite nor finite nor quantitative nor qualitative; it is not subject to time or space , and is of a very different nature from time and space. Heart expands and contracts, opens and closes, and is not therefore of any geometrical or mathematical nature.

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